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socialist realism

a style of writing, painting, etc., established in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, typically depicting laborers and other members of a communist society in a heroic or idealized fashion

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noun

A Marxist aesthetic doctrine that seeks to promote the development of socialism through didactic use of literature, art, and music.

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