Art, it is said, is not a mirror, but a hammer: it does not reflect, it shapes. -- Leon Trotsky, Literature and Revolution
Socialist Realism
During the 1934 First Congress of Soviet Writers, Socialist Realism became the official policy of the organization. Loosely defined, it was a style of continuing Russian realism imbued with optimism for the revolution and a focus on the nobility of the workers.
Socialist Realism soon became the policy for all Soviet art. As the means of producing and publishing art had been taken into state control, this style soon became essential for success in Soviet Russia. The style extended from painting to fiction to cinema and everything in between.
This policy ended Revolutionary Russia as a center for artistic experiment and has been criticized by many as a repressive policy, but these criticisms have also overshadowed serious appreciation for the beauty of some of these works.
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| Isaac Brodsky. Lenin in Smolny (1930) |
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