Socialist Realism Without Shores also addresses the critical discourse provoked by socialist realism - Stalinist aesthetics; "anthropological" readings; ideolog

Socialist Realism appeared in order to proceed towards what was then conceived as a bright new future - the Communist paradise on earth.

After the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, the new government took control of Russian art, nationalizing art collections and laying down the principles that were t

The past fifteen years have seen an important shift in the way scholars look at socialist realism. Where it was seen as a straitjacket imposed by the Stalinist