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socialist Realism


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Offically approved styles of art, architecture, literature, etc., in the former Soviet Union and some other Communist countries. In architecture it usually involved a type of coarse stripped Classicism.

CoE (1995);Jane Turner (1996)

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Socialist Realism
in The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7) Length: 419 words
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in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3) Length: 153 words
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in The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English Length: 169 words
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in The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (3) Length: 117 words

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