Socialist Realism

• Books/Literature & Cinema = Russian history

  • Idolised ordinary life
  • Music and dance had to be happy and positive

  Jazz = immoral

  Ballet = acceptable
• Ended creative freedom

  • Film makers, musicians, artists, writers used to be able to make/write about any thing they wanted in the 1920s
  • At this time the only allowed art form was socialist realism
  • Anyone who created media not of this form was shot or sent to the gulags.
• • Simple, direct communist message
  • Making things look easy to understand - visually controlling art
  • All art had to portray communism / pro-country and be 'realistic' and easy to understand

  The aim of this was so that communism and the soviet union's ideologies were inescapable, to inflict a psychological incapability on people making them unable to forget Stalin in any aspect of their life