Socialist realism was developed by many thousands of artists, across a diverse society, over several decades. … See more

Stalin's adversary, Leon Trotsky, was highly critical of this rigid approach towards the arts. He viewed cultural conformity as an expression of Stalinism in which "the literary schools were strangled one after the other" and the me… See more

Hanns Eisler composed many workers' songs, marches, and ballads on current political topics such as Song of Solidarity, Song of the United Front, and Song of the Comintern. He was a founder of a new style of revolutio… See more

In conjunction with the Socialist Classical style of architecture, socialist realism was the officially approved type of art in the Soviet Union for more than fifty years.
In the early years of the Soviet Union, Russian an… See more

After the Russian Revolution, socialist realism became an international literary movement. Socialist trends in literature were established in the 1920s in Germany, France, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. Writers wh… See more

In the poster propaganda produced during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922) men were overrepresented as workers, peasants, and combat heroes, and when women were shown, it was often either to symbolize … See more

• Socialist-Realist allegories surrounding the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw
• Stone as a Weapon of the Proletariat by Ivan Shadr (1947)
• Stalin Monument in Prague-Letná (1955–1962) … See more