Socialist Realism

Introduction

Socialist Realism was the esthetic doctrine in the Soviet Union was considered a mandatory practice for all revolutionary writers and artists in the mid 1930's. Because of his supporters were mainly intellectuals Stalinist Soviet socialist realism, related to the totalitarian art and was condemned as stifling the potential of creative people. However, the requirements of socialist realism and its specific literary and artistic achievements do not always coincide in practice often enriches the theory.

In his report to the Committee of the Communist Party leaders in the Navy from 1932 to form the Union of Writers and was subsequently reissued in the international literature, Valery Kirpotin defined socialist realism as the artistic reflection of society in its revolutionary development , Al socialist realism. Reflected in the art from the outside world in all its essential facts and by substantial and typical characteristics we have in mind an accurate description of life in all respects with the principle of victory for the forces of socialist revolution. We have created a socialist realism and idealism, subjectivism, literature illusion in any case, such false and distorted reflection of reality.

Discussion

Socialist realism was the officially approved as an aesthetic doctrine of the Communist Party in 1934 in the first Congress of Soviet Writers', everything that happened from 17 grams to 1 September. Just before Congress, however, the official newspaper of the party, gave a definition of socialist realism, which is repeated and completed Kirpotin, but in motion, that is a symptom of the political climate of that time, was associated with Joseph Stalin's "socialist realism, the basic method of Soviet literature and literary criticism requires the truth of the artist and the specific historical representations of reality in its revolutionary development. In these circumstances, the truthfulness and historical concreteness of artistic representation must be combined with the task of reconstruction and ideological education of the people working in the spirit of socialism (Morgan, 85-98).

From the Congress of Soviet Writers, held between 17th Party Congress in January 1934, in which the opposition appeared to Stalin and the murder of Sergei Kirov, after brushing against political opponents in December this year, of course, to put pressure on writers to follow the party line. At the national and international situation were far from conducive to the Soviets. Millions of peasants died of famine that ravaged the country for three years (1930-33) and fell to the rules of ...