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World Encyclopedia

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Encyclopedias
Length:
60 words

State policy on the arts promoted by the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1980s. It asserted that all

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The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2003
Subject:
Performing arts, Theatre
Length:
209 words

term applied, in all artistic fields, to the sober style that succeeded the wave of experiment following the Russian Revolution. As expounded by ...

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Robin Lenman

The Oxford Companion to the Photograph

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Art & Architecture
Length:
342 words

Aesthetic doctrine enunciated at the 1934 first All‐Union Congress of Soviet Writers by Maxim Gorky and Communist Party Secretary Andrei

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The Oxford Companion to Western Art

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2003
Subject:
Art & Architecture
Length:
185 words

the art produced in accord with the propagandist purposes of the Soviet Communist dictatorship from 1932. It was proclaimed

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Nick Worrall

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Performing arts, Theatre
Length:
288 words
A prescriptive term for socialist artistic practice, which emerged from the First Soviet Writers' Conference in 1934, used in opposition to ‘formalism’. Socialist realism required ... More
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The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature, Literary studies (20th century onwards)
Length:
169 words

a term used to describe the official artistic doctrine adopted at the Congress of Soviet Writers in 1934, and approved by ...

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The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Art & Architecture
Length:
484 words
The name of the officially approved type of art in Soviet Russia and other Communist countries, involving in theory a faithful and objective reflection of real life to educate and inspire ... More
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The Companion to Theatre and Performance

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Performing arts, Theatre
Length:
319 words
A prescriptive term for socialist artistic practice, which emerged from the First Soviet Writers' Conference in 1934, used in opposition to ‘formalism’. Socialist realism required ... More
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Art & Architecture
Length:
83 words

The name for the officially approved art of Soviet Russia and other Communist countries, particularly under the dictatorship of Stalin ...

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The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Performing arts, Dance, Music
Length:
253 words
Under Stalin, dance in the Soviet Union was expected to conform to Party doctrine. Ideally, choreographers were meant to portray contemporary life in a realistic style while at the same ... More
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Jonathan Walker

The Oxford Companion to Music

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2011
Subject:
Music
Length:
705 words

The official artistic doctrine of the USSR from 1932 onwards. The 1920s saw an explosion of creative pluralism in the arts, but in ...

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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Language reference, History of English, Literature, Literary theory and cultural studies
Length:
41 words
the theory of art, literature, and music officially sanctioned by the state in some Communist countries (especially in the Soviet Union under Stalin), by which artistic work was supposed ... More

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