Literature, the Arts and Socialist Realism (AQA A-Level History): Flashcards
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Stalin's term for artists shaping citizens' consciousness
Stalin's term for artists shaping citizens' consciousness
Engineers of the human soul
Year institutional control over culture began
Year institutional control over culture began
1932
Organisation all writers had to join from 1932
Organisation all writers had to join from 1932
Union of Soviet Writers
Socialist realism definition (key phrase)
Socialist realism definition (key phrase)
Truthful representation of reality in revolutionary development
Who established socialist realism framework in April 1934?
Who established socialist realism framework in April 1934?
Andrei Zhdanov
Required tone of socialist realist works (3 qualities)
Required tone of socialist realist works (3 qualities)
Uplifting, optimistic, and positive
19th century Russian writers promoted alongside new works
19th century Russian writers promoted alongside new works
Pushkin and Tolstoy
How landscape art was to depict nature
How landscape art was to depict nature
Nature tamed by Soviet industrial endeavour
Year Moscow Metro opened as 'palaces of light'
Year Moscow Metro opened as 'palaces of light'
1935
Term for Zhdanov's cultural repression campaign post-1946
Term for Zhdanov's cultural repression campaign post-1946
Zhdanovshchina