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socialist realism
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From: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
Date: 20040101
Author:CHRISTOPHER BALDICK
socialist realism,
a slogan adopted by the Soviet cultural authorities in 1934 to summarize the requirements of Stalinist dogma in literature: the established techniques of 19th‐century realism were to be used to represent the struggle for socialism in a positive, optimistic light, while the allegedly ‘decadent’ techniques of modernism were to be avoided as bourgeois deviations. The approved model was Maxim Gorky's novel The Mother (1907). A few outstanding novels have conformed to this official prescription, including Mikhail Sholokhov's Virgin Soil Upturned ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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