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Meaning of socialist realism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A Stalinist idealization of the dictatorship of the proletariat applied to art that used realistic techniques to show the struggle for socialism in a positive and optimistic manner.

uncountable

Equivalents

Azərbaycan dili sosialist realizmi сосиалист реализми
Deutsch sozialistischer Realismus
Français réalisme socialiste
Монгол социалист реализм
Polski realizm socjalistyczny socrealizm
Română realism socialist
Русский соцреализм
Svenska socialrealism
Українська соціалісти́чний реалі́зм соцреалі́зм

Examples

“Derided, lampooned and long since consigned to the dustbin of aesthetic history, the art of Soviet Socialist Realism has not enjoyed a happy afterlife following the collapse of communism.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

socialist realist Socialist Republic of Macedonia Socialist Republic of Romania Socialist Republic of Slovenia Socialist Republic of Viet Nam Socialist Republic of Vietnam

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