Meanings of socialist realism in English

Sorokin's writing is parody of socialist realism and earlier Russian lit, with absurdist twists.

The tension between socialist realism and orientalism is played out on the walls here.

He's like Bruce Springsteen's American blue-collar hero crossed with the muscle-bound workers celebrated in Soviet socialist realism.

The country's rich painting and ceramics traditions gave way to socialist realism after the Communist revolution in 1949.

The meeting, attended by Stalin and several other Politburo members, marked in effect the official inauguration of " socialist realism" in literature.

Mainly retro Socialist Realism painted with a smirk.

This literary device became known as " Socialist realism."

" Socialist realism" is the Soviet device for distorting the truth about the present.

BAM's most prominent monument, it is symbolic of the sheer effort of building the railway and a supposedly spectacular example of Socialist realism.

The opposite to " Socialist realism" is "formalism," usually condemned as "bourgeois formalism" because of its excessive loyalty to facts instead of hopes.