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2. Visuality of M. Elizarov’s Novels 'Librarian' and 'Cartoons' as a Means of Transforming Socialist Realist Canon
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I. R. Kuryaev and E. P. Ovsyannikova
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mikhail elizarov’s prose ,socialist realism ,literary cinematicity ,visuality ,eye and gaze ,Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages ,PG1-9665 - Abstract
This article examines the role of the visual aspect of the text in the recontextualization of elements from the socialist realist canon. The study focuses on Mikhail Elizarov’s novels “Librarian” and “Cartoons.” It is established that, firstly, Elizarov consciously constructs his works according to the principles of literary cinematicity, with visuality serving as a prominent component. Secondly, visuality facilitates the integration of elements from the Soviet project into the narrative, expressed through spaces and objects. Furthermore, it allows for their recontextualization by embedding them within new contexts. Thirdly, the reactivation of spaces and objects is aided by the figure of the protagonist, who is presented through the technique of traveling. Fourthly, the narrative development of the novels bears similarities to socialist realist plots concerning re-education. Additionally, through the image of the protagonist, the relevance of the opposition between “eye” and “gaze” is emphasized, which in turn contributes to the actualization of ideas related to control and behavior modeling. The gaze of the Other, experienced by the characters, draws them into narrative structures akin to those found in socialist realism, compelling them to adopt specific roles — the role of a character burdened with socialist realist motives. Finally, it is noted that the protagonist’s distinctive position enhances reader identification and alters the very status of the Book.
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3. Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism
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Kiaer, Christina, author and Kiaer, Christina
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- 2024
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4. Socialist in content, national in form: Small-scale housing estates in Budapest between 1945 and 1960
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Ing. arch. Bence Bene
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post-war ,socialist realism ,socialist modern ,housing estate ,budapest ,Architecture ,NA1-9428 - Abstract
In the second half of the 20th century, solving the housing crisis became a significant social issue and political task throughout Europe, particularly in the countries of the Eastern Bloc. Although due to its quantity, prefabricated large mass housing estates became overrepresented, dozens of smaller, experimental, and diverse mass housing forms also emerged. It is hypothesized, that these small housing estates, due to their scale and quality, are urban planning projects that were realized across political, economic, and architectural changes. To demonstrate their adaptability, this paper presents the small housing estates built in one of the capitals of the Eastern Bloc countries—Budapest—during the most turbulent one-and-a-half decades of the socialist era (1945–1960). The research consists of three main parts: (1) Hungarian politics and housing policy, (2) Budapest's urban policy, and (3) a brief presentation of the urban planning and architectural aspects of Budapest's small housing estates. The result of the research is the creation of a complete small housing estates portfolio, illustrated archive articles, archival plans, and photographs. It becomes evident that although the times from World War II to the consolidation of power saw vastly different political eras, directives, and ideals realized, along with various architectural styles and housing policies, the small housing estate as an urban planning product was able to adapt and survive. Moreover, it is a valuable architectural, housing, and urban planning imprint of the era, the only mass housing form realized in numerous examples in Budapest.
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5. The Antinomies of Latvian Literary Realism.
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Kalnačs, Benedikts
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LATVIAN literature ,LITERARY realism ,LITERARY criticism ,SOCIALIST realism ,AESTHETICS - Abstract
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6. Agents of Socialist Realism: Transforming the Future in Hungarian Educational Films.
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Strausz, László
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This article analyzes the ways the educational- and propaganda films produced by the film studio of the Hungarian Ministry of Interior during the 1950s and 60s are part of the broader landscape of socialist realist culture. The author proposes that by tracing the transformations of the fatherly police agent figure across the productions of the film studio, we can understand how the project of socialist realism itself began to change in the aforementioned period. In this light, the police agent becomes a figure on whom the shifting epistemological status of representation under state socialism is projected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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7. Self-Legitimation or Self-Critique? The Kafka Debates in East German Cultural Politics.
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Horakova, Anna
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SOCIALIST societies ,GERMAN language ,POLITICS & culture ,COLD War, 1945-1991 ,SOCIAL reality ,IMAGINATION - Abstract
In the literary debates of the first two decades of the German Democratic Republic, the work of Franz Kafka generally served as a foil for how not to write socialist literature. Assessments of Kafka's work and legacy either opposed the modernist Kafka against socialist realist principles or fashioned the Prague author into a perceptive critic of bourgeois, capitalist society who, nevertheless, stopped short of grasping the underlying causes of the circumstances he critiqued and whose insights into the alienation of his times remained irrelevant for the socialist present. This article complicates this early reception of Kafka in the GDR by focusing on contributions of the East German delegation to the 1963 international Kafka conference in Liblice, Czechoslovakia, which invited Marxists from both East and West to discuss Kafka's potential relevance for socialist societies, resulting in an unprecedented political critique of alienation under really existing socialism from many invitees. While the East German delegation largely refrained from such conclusions, critic Ernst Schumacher's speech departs from the consensus of his East German peers: coining the notion of 'double estrangement' (doppelte Verfremdung) to describe the interpretive uncertainty of Kafka's writing as well as its emancipatory, imaginative dimensions, Schumacher eventually extols its utopian potential to allow it to reflect the new social reality of the GDR's future as negotiated by the GDR's community of readers and writers (Literaturgesellschaft). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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8. Between writer and militant: Arab realism and the accidental.
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Kesrouany, Maya
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REALISM ,LITERARY theory ,LITERARY criticism ,LITERARY style ,CREATIVE thinking - Abstract
This article explores Arab theories of socialist realism in the 1950s with a focus on the literary battles among Marxist-oriented critics in Egypt and Lebanon who debated literature's role in creating a homogenous form of culture in an ideal socialist state. Analyzing works by Egyptian literary critic Mahmud Amin al-ʿAlim (1922–2009) and the Lebanese Marxist critic Husayn Muruwwah (1910–1987), I explore how these thinkers understood socialist realism. Their conceptions of realism were a hybrid of Sartre's existential call for a littérature engagée and the Soviet doctrine of socialist realism; however, these critics' brand of realism had its own demons, specifically those that had to do with chance. Al-ʿAlim, for example, theorized coincidence as a scientific principle that could accommodate the accidental and yet remain universally valid as a philosophical method of literary and social critique. Muruwwah treated chance in relation to authorial mistake, promoting a realism that would contain potential mistakes on the road to an ideal socialist existence. The article explores how they approach chance in relation to both literary creation and its occurrence as an uncalculated event in the world represented in the literary work. It outlines how the two writers conceived of a realist literature that would provide a rational and scientific understanding of totality. Their approaches, the article illustrates, confront idealism and materialism in literary criticism, using the terms نقد (criticism) and منهج (method). To conclude, the article demonstrates how their theories mobilize the role chance plays in literary creation to push back against concurrent existentialist and romantic trends that were seen to foreground the solipsism of authorial subjectivity. It argues that their deployment of chance adapts socialist realism to respond to debates on cultural autonomy and authorial agency in the Cold War Arab world. Their treatment of chance reveals how they adapted literary trends to speak to possibilities of Arab literary autonomy in the time period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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9. Socialist in content, national in form: Small-scale housing estates in Budapest between 1945 and 1960.
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Bene, Bence
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PLANNED communities ,SOCIALISTS ,URBAN planning ,SOCIALIST realism - Abstract
In the second half of the 20th century, solving the housing crisis became a significant social issue and political task throughout Europe, particularly in the countries of the Eastern Bloc. Although due to its quantity, prefabricated large mass housing estates became overrepresented, dozens of smaller, experimental, and diverse mass housing forms also emerged. It is hypothesized, that these small housing estates, due to their scale and quality, are urban planning projects that were realized across political, economic, and architectural changes. To demonstrate their adaptability, this paper presents the small housing estates built in one of the capitals of the Eastern Bloc countries—Budapest—during the most turbulent one-and-a-half decades of the socialist era (1945–1960). The research consists of three main parts: (1) Hungarian politics and housing policy, (2) Budapest's urban policy, and (3) a brief presentation of the urban planning and architectural aspects of Budapest's small housing estates. The result of the research is the creation of a complete small housing estates portfolio, illustrated archive articles, archival plans, and photographs. It becomes evident that although the times from World War II to the consolidation of power saw vastly different political eras, directives, and ideals realized, along with various architectural styles and housing policies, the small housing estate as an urban planning product was able to adapt and survive. Moreover, it is a valuable architectural, housing, and urban planning imprint of the era, the only mass housing form realized in numerous examples in Budapest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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10. A Postcolonial Perspective on Aleksandr Deineka’s Donbas Images
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Marina Gerber
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Socialist Realism ,Aleksandr Deineka ,Postcolonial ,Imperialism ,Colonialism ,Soviet Union ,Arts in general ,NX1-820 - Abstract
This article analyses both well-known and unfamiliar paintings, illustrations and mosaics depicting the Ukrainian Donbas region by the Socialist Realist artist Aleksandr Deineka (1899–1969). Having been received, because of his modernism, rather sympathetically in the West, Deineka produced an array of Donbas images that can be employed as a starting point for analysing Soviet imperial ideology in art. The case of Deineka shows the extent of Soviet imperial and colonial strategies in regard to nations that were subjected to Moscow’s rule, and that even Deineka, who is considered as a critical Socialist Realist, was one of the most powerful ideologues of Soviet colonial imperialism.
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11. Polish Classical Musicians and Composers in the Early Communist Period : State Censorship and Evolving Aesthetics
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James, Montagu, Thomasen, Gry, editor, Békés, Csaba, editor, Rácz, András, editor, and Marton, Péter, Editor-in-Chief
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12. 'Haunting'. Die Wiederkehr der Konflikte der postsozialistischen Transformationsprozesse im Dresdner Bilderstreit
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Fritzsch, Constanze, Berek, Mathias, Series Editor, Dimbath, Oliver, Series Editor, Haag, Hanna, Series Editor, Heinlein, Michael, Series Editor, Leonhard, Nina, Series Editor, Sebald, Gerd, Series Editor, and Hilmar, Till, editor
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13. Moscow Conceptualism in a Monologue with the Avant-garde
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Lazareva Ekaterina A.
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moscow conceptualism ,avant-garde ,socialist realism ,socialist art ,soviet art ,Arts in general ,NX1-820 - Abstract
This article is the first to explore the relationship of Moscow conceptual artists with the creative and moral legacy of the Russian avant-garde of the 1910s-1920s. In the 1960s, the previous generation of Soviet non-official artists resonated with the avant-garde legacy upon getting acquainted with it and attempted to continue the tradition seen precisely as a formal experiment. Meanwhile, the Moscow conceptualist circle recognized Russian avantgarde as a conceptual source for the consequent ideologization of the entire reality and as a project of the violent transformation of life. And if social realism was a more obvious opponent for conceptualists, the forbidden art of the avant-garde became its own Other, alien in a very close and uncomfortable sense. The relations articulated in Moscow conceptualism over several decades were different and ambiguous; they developed and evolved as the legacy of the avant-garde became more familiar and as the socio-political and cultural context changed. In the 1970s, the conceptual art practice did not seek a ‘dialogue’ with the avant-garde, and the reflections of the older generation of Moscow conceptualists were marked with intention to dissociate themselves from the avant-garde and its aesthetic systems (the discussion of the political engagement of the avantgarde was pushed forward for later reflections, mainly into the 2010s). The 1980s brought liberalization into the study and exhibiting of the Russian avant-garde, and its admiration became a kind of duty that was taken ironically by the next generation of Moscow conceptual artists. To get international recognition, contemporary Russian art required to establish any affiliation (negative, if not positive) with the brand of the ‘Russian avant-garde’. The artistic practice of Ilya Kabakov has radically escalated the polemics with the avant-garde, which was subsequently projected onto the entire Moscow conceptualism. However, the exploration into the history of Moscow conceptualism as a response to the avant-garde project reveals heterogeneity of such a response, comprising individual halftones and historical dynamics.
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14. Some Characteristics of the Representation of Stalin’s Image in Soviet Feature Films of the 1930s-1940s
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Palshkova Maria A.
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stalin myth ,lenin films (leniniana) ,stalin films (staliniana) ,socialist realism ,the socialist realism canon ,stalinist cinema ,“a new moral” ,religious discourse ,Arts in general ,NX1-820 - Abstract
The article analyzes a number of films shot in the 1930s and 1940s, in which the process of gradual sacralization of the image of I.V. Stalin on the Soviet screen can be clearly traced. The main attention is paid to the films which can be included in two different groups. The first group is called “Leniniana” (Lenin films) whose function was to establish Stalin as the only true successor of V.I. Lenin and to legalize the political course for absolute power and the policy of “great terror”. The other group of films is “Staliniana” (Stalin films) which reached its peak in the years after the end of the Great Patriotic War. As part of the analysis of these films, the author also touches upon one of the key myths of Soviet historiography about the defense of Tsaritsyn. Performing in several roles in the 1930s from “earthly”, i.e. political (as the only legitimate successor of Lenin), to symbolic (the all-father of the Soviet people) — in the post-war period the figure of Stalin was literally sacralized, acquiring the features of all three divine hypostases: “god the father”, “god the son” and “the god of the holy spirit” (The Fall of Berlin movie). The process of sacralization manifests itself at all levels: in terms of the plot, figuratively and verbally.
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15. Specifics of Bildungsroman Structure in Protocanon Phase of Socialist Realism
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O. Yu. Osmukhina and E. P. Ovsyannikova
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soviet literature ,socialist realism ,bildungsroman ,protocanon phase of socialist realism ,motive complex ,Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages ,PG1-9665 - Abstract
The article examines the Soviet novels of the mid-1920s — early 1930s, gravitating towards the genre tradition of the Bildungsroman (D. Furmanov’s “Chapaev”, A. Fadeev’s “Razgrom”, N. Ognev’s “Diary of Kostya Ryabtsev”, A. Gaidar’s “School”, A. Bondin’s “Matvey Korenistov”, B. Yasensky’s “A Man Changes Skin” and A. Avdeenko's “I Love”), which “prepared” the universal model of the socialist realist novel of the hero’s personality formation, largely determining its structure in the following decades. It is established that, first, the unifying feature of socialist realist novels about the formation of personality is an accentuated plot about the protagonist’s difficult childhood (the hero grows up in an incomplete family, the family does not participate in his upbringing), his escape from home and his discovery of a friend, who for the first time informs the hero of revolutionary sentiments; his functional role is a mediator on the border of two worlds — “old” and “new”. Secondly, one of the obligatory events in which the hero takes part is the rally (strike) as a place where the hero’s ideological allegiance is tested or where his views are formed. Third, the boundary event that separates the hero’s life in the narrative of the socialist realist novel is the October Revolution, participation in which allows the protagonist to find a “big family”. Finally, the narrative of the socialist realist Bildungsroman and re-education is an alternation of stable motifs: loneliness, recognizing mistakes, getting a second chance, and sacrificing oneself.
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16. Forms of Translation, Translation of Forms: From Gorky's Mother to Mahasweta Devi's Mother of 1084.
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Banerjee, Sandeep
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BILDUNGSROMANS , *SOCIALIST realism - Abstract
This article focuses on the Bengali novel হাজার চুরাশির মা (Mother of 1084) by Mahasweta Devi to read it as a rewriting of Maxim Gorky's The Mother. It contends that Mother of 1084 recasts Gorky's radical and gendered bildungsroman for the context of India where it not only documents the development of the radical consciousness of Sujata, the mother of the revolutionary Brati killed by the Indian state, but also the patriarchal structure of the Indian/Bengali family. Furthermore, it argues that the Bengali novel recasts the socialist realism of the Russian novel into modernist Bengali prose. It examines Mahasweta's deployment of the modernist aesthetic while locating Mother of 1084 in a broader tradition of actually existing communist artistic praxis in South Asia to illuminate the tradition of committed modernism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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17. Liviu Ciulei and The Last Ones: Between Personal Trauma, Psychodrama, and Collective Drama.
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HAŢIEGAN, Anca
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DRAMA therapy ,EMOTIONAL trauma ,CIVIL engineers ,WAR ,CIVIL engineering ,FATHERS - Abstract
This paper focuses on an early role in the theatrical career of the actor, director, and scenographer Liviu Ciulei (1923-2011), created on the stage of the theatre gifted to him by his father, the civil engineer Liviu Ciulley, in 1946. The role in question is Pyotr from the play The Last Ones by Russian playwright Maxim Gorky, which premiered at the Odeon Theatre in Bucharest on the 16th of March 1948. My point is that Liviu Ciulei was drawn to this play by a psychodramatic impulse, finding in it issues related to his father who, like the protagonist in Gorky's play, had embroiled his family in a major scandal when his son was only thirteen years old. The season in which the play premiered was marked by the increasing interference of communist authorities in art, so the intense psychodramatic process through which Liviu Ciulei consciously or unconsciously worked through his early adolescent trauma intertwined with the collective drama represented by the imposition of the Soviet-enforced communist regime in Romania at the end of World War II. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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18. La plástica comunista chilena ante el Realismo Socialista durante el preámbulo de la Guerra Fría (1948-1952).
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Lewin, Josefina
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ARTISTS ,COLD War, 1945-1991 ,COMMUNIST parties ,SOCIALISM ,REALISM - Abstract
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19. O lectură a romanului Bietul Ioanide de G.Călinescu dintr-o perspectivă realist socialistă (I).
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FĂRMUŞ, Ioan
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This article explores the complexities of the process of writing in a period of transition of the communist regime, as illustrated by the novel Bietul Ioanide [Poor Ioanide] written by G.Călinescu, a Romanian prose writer and literary critic. The attempt to classify the book as either Socialist Realist or subversive turns out to be problematic. In order to reveal that, the study brings into discussion the ideological positioning of the author (recuperated by the new regime from the interwar period, but seldom perceived as an ally), the genesis of the novel, the context of its appearance, the reviews it got (especially the official ones) or the points Călinescu’s book has in common with the Marxist-Leninist ideology and with Socialist Realism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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20. MORALINIAI SOCIALISTINIO REALIZMO ATSPINDŽIAI.
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ALSYS, LUKAS
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21. Memories of Joy for a Futureless World: Aesthetic and Political Commitment in Jasieński and Pasolini
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Krzysztof Rowiński
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joy ,socialist realism ,proletarian aesthetics ,folk cultures ,History (General) and history of Europe ,Language and Literature - Abstract
Discussions of cultural disappearance are often couched in terms of nostalgia and tragedy. Bruno Jasieński in Bal manekinów and Pier Paolo Pasolini in Ragazzi di vita offer an alternative form of remembering disappearance through memories of joy, understood as a distinctly political practice. Acutely aware of the untenability of what they were celebrating (pockets of liberty from cultural uniformity, in local cultures and aesthetic experimentation, respectively), both writers maintained a sense of political commitment, offering a good broader model for thinking about a world without a future.
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22. Exploring Hidden Narrative Elements through a Close Reading of Vasily Grossman’s Short Story 'The Life of Il’ya Stepanovich' (1935)
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Paola Ferrandi
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vasily grossman ,socialist realism ,positive hero ,censorship ,self reflection ,historical progress ,narrator ,Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar ,P101-410 - Abstract
The subject matter of this paper concerns the early phase of Vasily Grossman’s literary career in the mid1930s. Prior to this period, the author proved his ability to evaluate the mechanisms of censorship and developed his understanding of what was publishable and what could be sanctioned through the publication process of his first novel (Bit Yunan, Fel’dman 2019). The research material selected for this paper is the lesserknown short story Zhizn’ Il’i Stepanovicha [The life of Il’ya Stepanovich], published in 1935, and the aim is to provide a close reading and an interpretation key to this text. In order to expose the hidden ambiguity of the short story, the chosen research perspective includes a focus on the function of the protagonist as an entity that does not legitimise the socialist myth; a narratological approach on the use of proper names, on “perspective” and the role of the narrator with regard to the axiological structure of the text.
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- 2023
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23. Socialist realism in uzbek literature
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Bayram Bilir and Arif Yılmaz
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20th century uzbek literature ,socialist realism ,ussr ,cpsu ,Language and Literature ,Ural-Altaic languages ,PH1-5490 - Abstract
Socialist realism can be described as a literary movement that aims to reflect the social realities in a revolutionary way and with a Marxist approach, by considering the human in their social relations. The term socialist realism was first used by Gronsky in Literaturnaya Gazyetta (Literary Newspaper) published in the Soviet Union on May 23, 1932. The Great October Socialist Revolution ushered in a new era in human history, the epoch of socialism. The peoples within the Soviet state were given the right to establish autonomous republics in 1924, and it was aimed to open a wide and smooth political, economic and cultural development path for the peoples within the Soviet state. As a result of the Great October Revolution and after the Socialist Revolution and Leninist national policy, Soviet peoples' literatures, including Uzbek Soviet literature, was shaped as a new type of literature. In this study, the emergence and formation of Uzbek Soviet Literature depending on social and political factors will be discussed. According to the needs of the period, detailed information will be given about the works written by Uzbek authors.
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24. Sarah Kirsch, auteur d’ouvrages pour enfants
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Céline Weck
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children’s literature ,GDR literature ,socialist realism ,intertextuality ,rewritings ,folk tales ,Arts in general ,NX1-820 - Abstract
Sarah Kirschs Activities as an Author of Children’s Literature This contribution will highlight three works of children’s literature written by Sarah Kirsch (1935-2013) at the beginning of her poetic career. On the one hand, the aim is to point out these productions, which are often considered to be of secondary importance, and on the other hand to reveal the specific literary techniques of Sarah Kirsch, which are already at work in these early pieces. First, an example of children’s literature commissioned by the GDR literary authorities (Zwischen Herbst und Winter) and strongly influenced by the guidelines of socialist realism will be examined, followed by a scientifically resonant rewriting of Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Caroline im Wassertropfen). The final part of this contribution will identify the techniques of simplification and trivialisation of popular literary material that Sarah Kirsch makes extensive use of, both in her productions for children and in her poetic work.
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- 2023
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25. Chromatic Ratios in the Painting of Bessarabian Artists from the Post-war Period
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Rodica URSACHI
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color ,painting ,hue ,tonality ,contrast ,artist ,socialist realism ,Literature (General) ,PN1-6790 - Abstract
The article concerns the problem of the way of plastic presentation under chromatic ratio in the painting from the years ’40–’50. In the first post-war decade, the national culture in the territory between the Dniester and the Prut is subject to severe ideological restrictions that had a strong impact on the artistic life. The new requirements change the artistic vision of plastic artists and focus national art on the aesthetics of „socialist realism”, with an emphasis on social and historical themes, rendered in a pronounced narrative-literary character. From a stylistic point of view, the painting of the post-war period reveals a way of plastic expression and a chromatic predilection with reminiscences of the academic tradition – plein-air-ist manner, „non-finite” technique, modeling of the form by the chiaroscuro method, the use of the type of tonal contrast, dark color of warm shades (ochre-brown, olive-gray, etc.). Among the artists who adapted to the new requirements of the time and who practiced a painting of „Peredivjnicist” influence, are M. Gamburd, D. Sevastianov, A. Baranovici and others. The socio-cultural transformations after 1956–1957 led to the „liberation” of the artistic vision from the conventionalism of „socialist realism”. According to the result of a chromogram made by the author, it appears that, in the national painting of the post-war period, dark colors with a warm hue prevail, with a ratio of about 43%.
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26. Actualization of Bodily Aspect as Means of Reconstructing Socialist Realist Discourse in Novel 'Librarian' by M. Elizarov
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I. R. Kuryaev and A. O. Trushkina
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mikhail elizarov ,socialist realism ,violence ,corporeality ,visuality ,cinematography ,Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages ,PG1-9665 - Abstract
The ways of representing violence and the role of this category in constructing socialist realist discourse are considered. The novel “The Librarian” by Mikhail Elizarov is chosen as the research material. It is established that the novel synthesizes the tradition of socialist realist novels and genre elements of popular literature, with the author placing emphasis on the representation of violence. The article highlights that violence in the novel is visual and cinematic. It is revealed that the protagonist of the novel plays a significant role in such representation, as the artistic world is demonstrated through their perspective. The article shows that the acts of violence presented in the novel become indexes of a particular “Gromovian” world and contribute to the visual and ideological transformation of characters, as well as an inversion of familiar oppositions. The authors of the article determine that the “Gromovian” world is formed around the Book, which actualizes ideas of the periphery and the “golden age”: it is here where violence becomes a legitimate means of communication with characters from both the “Gromovian” and ordinary worlds. It is noted that violence, both physical and psychological, forms fundamental oppositions in the “Gromovian” world, such as “own” versus “other”, “senseless world” versus “ideal world”, and so on. Finally, it is pointed out that through violence, the socialist realist plot about the “remaking” of the hero and their rejection of their own self for the collective “we” is realized.
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- 2023
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27. The Sacred Revolution: The Art of Propaganda in North Korea
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Vu, Sean
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Communism ,Socialism ,Nationalism ,History ,Culture ,Religion ,personality cult ,Korea ,North Korea ,Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ,Socialist Realism ,Kim Il Sung ,Kim Jong Il ,Kim Jong Un ,Korean War ,Revolutionary Opera ,Self-criticism ,Arirang ,Mass Games ,East Asia ,20th Century ,manufacturing consent ,propaganda ,Durkheim ,Geertz ,North Korean defectors ,Senior Thesis ,Humanities Honors Program 2022 - Abstract
Thirty years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and while most former and current communist states have integrated themselves into the global economy, North Korea is still largely, and fiercely, resistant to it. It is one of the poorest countries in the world, with millions living without electricity and suffering from malnutrition. It is also one of the most repressive regimes in contemporary times, with hundreds of thousands imprisoned and tortured without probable cause, compelled to perform forced labor in a vast network of concentration camps. Typically, widespread destitution and oppression inspire liberal reforms or democratic revolutions, but neither have happened in North Korea. This raises the question of how the regime has maintained internal control so effectively for so long. One explanation for its survival is the pervasive security apparatus, but mass surveillance and state-sanctioned violence cannot be the exclusive explanations. One of the key ways cultures maintain stability without coercion is religion, which can be defined as a belief system adhered to by a community and supported through behaviors that result in a desired psychological state. This article argues that the ruling-Kim dynasty’s personality cult functions as a state religion that regulates the daily lives of North Koreans and contributes to the regime’s survival. Using Émile Durkheim’s religious framework and Clifford Geertz’s thick description I will examine propaganda works, social institutions, and defector testimonies to understand and explain the efficacy of the myths and rituals of the state.
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- 2022
28. the Birth of Soviet Underground Culture in the 1930s
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Vinokour, Maya, Lipovetsky, Mark, book editor, Engström, Maria, book editor, Glanc, Tomáš, book editor, Kukuj, Ilja, book editor, and Smola, Klavdia, book editor
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- 2024
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29. Spectacle and political gimmicks: The women's crusade for liberty, 1947-1949
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Michaels, Wendy
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- 2021
30. ОСМИСЛЕННЯ «СУВОРОГО СТИЛЮ» В ПРОЦЕСІ ФОРМУВАННЯ УКРАЇНСЬКОГО НЕОФІЦІЙНОГО МИСТЕЦТВА
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Олегівна, Солярська-Комарчук Ірина
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The purpose of the study is to reconsider the "strict style" beyond the narrative of the "Soviet art" and to identify those characteristics that allowed individual artists from Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, and Armenia to return to the national artistic tradition and find their own creative language that did not coincide with the values of the totalitarian system. The research methods are based on the fundamental principles of art historical analysis with the involvement of interdisciplinary connections (philosophy, history) to identify the innovative features of the "strict style" as the first important step for the emergence of the art of the "dissenters". The comparative method is used to identify the differences in regional manifestations of the "strict style" based on the national artistic traditions of Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, and Armenia. The systematic-analytical method is used to highlight the influence of the Khrushchev Thaw on the formation of new worldview values among the creative youth of the post-war period of the 1946s-1955s. The scientific novelty of the study is to identify the plot, plastic, and compositional characteristics of the "strict style" that became the reason for some national artists to search for national artistic traditions and interpret them using their own experience and artistic and figurative language. Conclusions. When comprehending the significance of the "strict style", one should note its importance for the beginnings of the revival of Ukraine's artistic traditions, which soon led to the emergence of "unofficial" art. While its founders, Russian artists, sought to convey the feat of labour of the Soviet man, our individual artists were able to demonstrate the difficult fates and tragedies of their own people (I.-V. Zadorozhnyi), moreover, using the techniques and imagery of avant-garde artists in their artistic language. The national artistic experience of the 1920s and early 1930s prompted them to revive and rethink their own heritage. The subjects, techniques of transmission, and compositional features were similar among the representatives of the "strict style", but the peculiar artistic thinking based on the worldview of their people made some national artists, as well as their colleagues from Estonia, Latvia, and Armenia, interpret the reality of their countrymen differently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
31. (RI) LEXIMET LETRARE: RASTI MIGJENI.
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KRASNIQI, Gazmend
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ALBANIAN literature ,SOCIALIST realism ,CIRCULATION (Architecture) ,FREEDOM & art ,INERTIA (Mechanics) - Abstract
This paper aims to highlight the idea of re-reading Albanian literature and re-dimensioning it into an authentic literary system, unaffected by the extra-literary interventions from which it suffered in the period of socialist realism. Albanian literature needs not only the return of literature banned for political and ideological views, but also the fair re-reading of works that were not banned from circulation, but were misinterpreted, according to the political aspects of the time. Among other things, this is where Migjen's work comes into play. It demands to be read and interpreted according to the most advanced literary thought, in a time of complete freedom. Can we deconstruct the official literary thought that has dominated for several decades and whose inertia still continues? What are the ways to do this? These are the main questions that will guide us while working with this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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32. KREATIVITETI NË TITUJ LIBRASH SHQIPTARË DHE TË HUAJ: ANALIZË GJUHËSORE DHE PËRQASËSE.
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JAHIU, Edona
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LANGUAGE & languages ,BOOKS ,ALBANIAN language ,YOUNG adults ,SOCIALIST realism - Abstract
This paper talks about the creative side and the choice of the language in the names of literary books in the Albanian language in the literature of recent years, as well as the trends in foreign books, compared to Albanian ones. Also, they are viewed from the lexical-grammatical point of view. 50 young people were asked about their evaluation, reading level and how they perceive Albanian and foreign books. However, in terms of fulfilling readers' taste, the statistics have given us results of preferences for foreign authors. As for the approach analysis, it has been observed that there are significant attempts to modernize and increase subjectivism, compared to the more conventional ways, but not infrequently there is a reconnection with tradition. The presence of a freer land, after liberation from socialist realism in Albania, but with influence in Kosovo as well, literature that was produced as a result of effort and narrowing of the horizon, now literary creativity invites researchers and writers for an open system and creates potential to be enriched aesthetically, which is why there is similarity with western models and beyond. So, it is involved in a whirlwind of radical changes compared to the most classic works of the 20th century. Out of the past compositional schematization, it is now taking on a stable character. That's because multiform refractions and experiments can be done, bring many colors and mixes within fiction, thus making today have a stable core of values and a creative spirit. Thus, Albanian writers tend to set new qualitative standards in authenticity and functional logic, for which Albanian literature is neither poor, nor inferior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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33. Literary cratylism: Thymos against Menis.
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Krasniqi, Nysret
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IMAGINATION ,CENSORSHIP - Abstract
This article is an observation of Platonic inclination to control and plan literary creativity. Such a proclivity will be noted by analysing some elements of its fundamental philosophical concepts, which relate to literary art in Cratylus, Pheadrus and Republic, as dialogue-works. The analysis will focus on his denial of naturalness of language, writing, and imaginative and creative freedom, as well as his intention to establish the institution of control or censorship. We will also discuss the projection of the ideological future of literary writing and emphasise that this tendency has assumed an atemporal character. We will notice how some of the platonic elements of the desire for control over literary art were exploited by the method of socialist realism, which, as such, requires the creation of literature planning by escaping from the agon of the tradition. As a counterbalance, we will emphasize the immanence of freedom of literary expressiveness based on the concept of thymos, precisely proposed by Plato. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
34. Shattering Glass and a Funeral in Belgrade.
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Linnavuori, Matti and Perić, Rosa Tina
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DRAMA festivals ,PROLETARIANIZATION ,SOCIALIST realism ,IDEOLOGY - Abstract
The article discusses the 57th edition of the Bitef Festival in Belgrade, Serbia, which took place from October 3 to 10, 2023. The festival's motto, "Strength, don't let yourself be anyone's," reflects themes of resistance, rebellion, and non-conformity. The article highlights three performances from the festival: "Children of the Sun," "Goodbye, Lindita," and "Desire to Make a Solid History Will End Up in Failure." Each performance explores different themes, such as the failure of aristocratic society, loss and mourning, and the reinterpretation of the Serbian independent dance scene. The article concludes by acknowledging the financial challenges faced by the festival but expresses gratitude that it continues to thrive. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
35. Education through Comprehensive and Dominant Cultural Policies: Reader-People of 1945-1975 Vietnamese Socialist Realist Literature.
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Le Quoc Hieu
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CULTURAL policy ,SOCIALIST societies ,REALIST fiction ,SOCIALISM ,EDUCATIONAL objectives ,IDEOLOGY ,LITERATURE - Abstract
If Southern Vietnam literature (1954-1975) can be considered as a continuation of prewar culture (1932-1945) to a certain extent, then Northern Vietnam literature breaks away from prewar culture to create a new culture, namely, socialist realist culture, and a new type of reader who has yet to be seen in the history of literature: the reader-people. The entire North Vietnam education system was oriented toward communist ideology and became part of the propaganda machine. Mass education is an essential revolutionary strategy of politicized literature and art in socialist countries. Through various comprehensive and dominant cultural policies, the ultimate goal of this educational process was to create a unified mass of people and mobilize them to fight and sacrifice themselves for the revolutionary cause. The reader-people of socialist realist literature were the product of this comprehensive and dominant educational process. This article delves into several cultural and political mechanisms that served as a tool to create the reader-people as a hybrid triad consisting of authorities (party censorship agencies), party-led "red" writers and artists, and the masses as the readers. However, inadequacies remained after the construction of the reader-people, which is characteristic of the political services of socialist countries though beneficial for two primary goals: to build socialism in the north and liberate the south to reunify the country. In Vietnam, the reader-people gradually disappeared before the decline of socialist realist literature after 1975. This article contributes to the scholarship of socialist realist culture not limited to only Vietnam a specific analysis of the construction of the reader-people via all-encompassing and dominantly politicized cultural policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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36. 0314 Another Realism: Ion Grigorescu, Photography and Document in 1970s Romania
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Ileana Parvu
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global conceptualism ,conceptual art ,socialist realism ,eastern european contemporary art ,suggestion ,arta magazine ,reporting from gorj ,szathmári carol ,Fine Arts - Abstract
In the Romanian context of the 1970s, how was it possible to produce a work of art that the authorities deemed too realistic? How can one understand the critique of an excess of realism when in 1971 the doctrine of Socialist Realism was re-established? This essay examines the notion of realism as forged by Romanian artist Ion Grigorescu. Drawing on recent writings in the theory of photography, it helps us understand how Grigorescu used the photographic medium to produce works, which, whilst adhering to realism’s principles, contravened the regime’s prescriptions. The use the artist made of the term "document" to circumvent official injunctions along with the national and international artistic sources of his work are among the questions addressed in this article to show how, even in a Communist country, dissent could walk on the paths of realism.
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- 2024
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37. РОМАН ДИН ЛИН «СОЛНЦЕ НАД РЕКОЙ САНГАНЬ» (1948) КАК ПРОИЗВЕДЕНИЕ КИТАЙСКОГО СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКОГО РЕАЛИЗМА
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Сидоренко А.Ю.
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китайская литература ,социалистический реализм ,ценностные установки ,дин лин ,антияпонская война ,chinese literature ,socialist realism ,values ,ding ling ,anti-japanese war ,Philology. Linguistics ,P1-1091 - Abstract
В статье приведен анализ нарративной и ценностно-семиотической системы романа Дин Лин «Солнце над рекой Сангань». Рассмотрены механизмы постулирования ценностных установок, а также традиционные мотивы. Также дана характеристика романа как одного из примеров реализации гранднарратива китайского соцреализма. Результаты анализа демонстрируют важнейшую роль дескриптивной составляющей и соответствующих элементов структуры персоносферы как основных механизмов постулирования ценностных установок социалистического реализма. Выявлено, что все эти элементы работают в комплексе, давая основу реализации повествовательной стратегии соцреализма. Также рассматриваются ограничения и затруднения, которые вызывает крайняя политизация, характерная для китайской литературы первых десятилетий КНР.
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- 2024
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38. Postwar Soviet Yiddish Literature
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Estraikh, Gennady
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- 2023
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39. Disputation on the Five Paradoxes of 'Toilet Poetry' with a Prologue and an Epilogue
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Krištof Jacek Kozak
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taras kermauner ,tomaž šalamun ,courtroom drama ,avant-garde poetry ,values ,socialist realism ,critical realism ,Dramatic representation. The theater ,PN2000-3307 - Abstract
Among the works of Taras Kermauner, probably the biggest expert on Slovenian drama and its first theoretician, one can also find a single dramatic experiment: a courtroom debate on the value of avant-garde poetry, based on the case of the accusation against the poet Tomaž Šalamun. While Kermauner develops the genre of judicial disputation in a theatrically fitting and interesting way, he undermines the disputation with an anticlimactic, anti-dramatic conclusion that postpones the decision on the matter to another space-time. A closer examination of the text reveals several conceptual inconsistencies that can be better understood as paradoxes. Thus, the five points that might be defined as paradoxical could be traced in the text itself concerning substantive categories such as the essence of art, the meaning of a nation for art, art and Marxism, and life as the supreme aesthetic category, while the last paradox is a more formal one, since the courtroom debate, with its conclusion, does not reach any point whatsoever. Regardless of the sufficiently clear and pointed presentation of the positions of the two protagonists, the Prosecutor and the Defender, Kermauner decides, rather than escalating the conflict to a (theatrical) climax, to dilute the disputation based on the inclusion of the audience and the conclusion that the latter, in its role as jury, cannot decide for either side. The (dis)solution of the dilemma of the (national, artistic) quality of avant-garde poetry is thus left – despite the fireworks of Kermauner’s theatrical courtroom debate – to the future and literary theory.
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- 2023
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40. THE REFLECTION OF SOCIALISM REALISM IN RUSSIAN MUSIC IN THE MUSIC IN THE CHINESE PIANO CONCERTO 'THE YELLOW RIVER'
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Zhao Yanran
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soviet union ,china ,socialist realism ,piano concerto ,“yellow river” ,national spirit ,General Works ,Social Sciences - Abstract
After World War II, the socialist camp opposed capitalism, and socialist realism became the official art school and style of socialist countries in the Soviet Union. This article analyzes how the realistic music style of the 19th century Soviet Union was inherited and developed in the 20th century, thus forming a music style that can be called “socialist realism”. This style had a profound impact on the development of Chinese piano music in the 20th century, including the creation of the Yellow River Piano Concerto by six Chinese composers, including Yin Chengzong, which is one of the typical music works of socialist realism style and the product of a specific historical period. It uses a revolutionary musical language, filled with inner passion and motivation. The paper applies the historical-structural approach, as well as the method of analysis of musical works and structural analysis of musicological literature published in Chinese and Russian on the subject of research. This article aims to reveal the significant impact of Russian and Soviet music styles on the development of Chinese piano art. The author concludes that due to the “socialist realism” style, the Yellow River piano works have a strong appeal and revolutionary nature, inspiring people to participate in national struggles and becoming a model of piano music at that time.
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- 2023
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41. History of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia as Presented by the Founder: to the Publication of the Manuscript (to the Centenary of the Association)
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Sarabiev Aleksei V.
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association of artists of revolutionary russia ,heroic realism ,socialist realism ,soviet fine arts ,e.a. katsman ,Arts in general ,NX1-820 - Abstract
One of the founders of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AARR) established in 1922 and its permanent secretary was the painter Eugene A. Katsman. Published for the first time, the transcript of his 1957 manuscript highlights some little-known points in the history of the Association. This article is introductory in nature and contains materials from another important source — E.A. Katsman’s diaries, which shed light on the circumstances of the preparation of the material, the author’s attitude to the phenomena in the artistic environment and public life, and his struggle for socialist realism. This publication is dedicated to the centenary of the AARR and designed to provide historians of culture with an honest opinion of a direct witness and participant in the events of a century ago. Both in the text of the published manuscript and in this introductory article, a number of outstanding artists of their time, cultural figures and Soviet political figures are mentioned. In the manuscript, Katsman characterized the major exhibitions and works created over the decade of the Association’s existence, and the diary fragments cited express his opinion on various issues of artistic life and the life of society in those years. The artist’s reflection in the diaries can become a valuable source not only for historians, but also for art critics.
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- 2023
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42. CREATIVE FREEDOM BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN.
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TERRY, AARON
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POSTERS ,SOCIALIST realism ,COLD War & politics ,EXPRESSION in art ,CENSORSHIP - Abstract
The article focuses on Polish graphic designer and cartoonist Jan Lenica's controversial 1964 poster for "Wozzeck" and the larger theme of creative freedom within the Eastern Bloc. Topics include the subversive potential of poster art against socialist realism; the impact of Cold War politics on artistic expression; and how poster designers in Poland, Cuba & Czechoslovakia used metaphor and ambiguity to bypass censorship while exploring unique visual approaches that defied state propaganda.
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- 2024
43. Towards Humanism and Stylistic Diversity: The “Open System” of Socialist Realism in Latvian Artwriting of the Stagnation Era.
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Pelše, Stella
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HUMANISM ,SYSTEMS theory ,AESTHETICS ,ART theory ,REALISM ,ART historians - Abstract
Copyright of Letonica is the property of University of Latvia, Institute of Literature, Folklore & Art and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2023
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44. Examining the Concept of Space in Soviet Lithuanian Poetry.
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Mitaitė, Donata
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POETRY (Literary form) ,LITHUANIANS ,CENSORSHIP ,INTERPERSONAL relations ,POETRY writing ,DESPAIR - Abstract
Copyright of Letonica is the property of University of Latvia, Institute of Literature, Folklore & Art and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2023
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45. EL ARTE AL SERVICIO DE LA REVOLUCIÓN EN MI VIAJE A LA URSS (1952) DE JESUALDO SOSA.
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Sellés, Carmen Luna
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COLD War, 1945-1991 , *URUGUAYAN literature , *TRAVEL guidebooks , *VOYAGES & travels , *COMMUNISM , *SOCIALISM , *REALISM , *CRITICISM - Abstract
The travel book by Uruguayan educator Jesualdo Sosa, Mi viaje a la URSS (1952) is a significant sample of Soviet cultural programming in the first decade of the Cold War and of the programmed trips to Eastern countries by Latin American intellectuals. Jesualdo, in his intention to show the achievements of Soviet communism, offers a broad review of the most varied aspects of the reality he sees. The purpose of this work is to review the artistic criticisms that the author makes when describing and evaluating different scenic works. Criticisms that show his knowledge of and affiliation to socialist realism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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46. Dekada Zjazdu w Kamieniu Śląskim.
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Pabiś-Orzeszyna, Michał
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Copyright of Film Quarterly / Kwartalnik Filmowy is the property of Kwartalnik Filmowy and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2023
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47. 雙層贊助、內部發行與錯位詩學― 《麥田裡的守望者》在 1960 年代大陸.
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張欣
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AESTHETICS ,LITERATURE translations ,HISTORICAL source material ,PUBLISHING ,TRANSLATING & interpreting ,POETICS - Abstract
Copyright of Compilation & Translation Review is the property of National Academy for Educational Research and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2023
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48. Yiddish in Interwar Berlin
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Caplan, Marc
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- 2023
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49. Marin Preda – from debut to celebrity
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Lucian CHIȘU
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marin preda ,biography ,haphazard ,debut ,communism ,socialist realism ,moromeții ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
MARIN PREDA – FROM DEBUT TO CELEBRITY This article deals with Marin Preda’s writings which precede the novel Moromeții (1955) and refers to the period in which the Romanian literature was under the inexorable pressure of politics. It is by chance only that, through its topic, Moromeții found itself in the wake of the events and consequences that occurred at the end of World War II, culminating in the establishment of communism in Eastern Europe. To a certain extent, these events are prefigured in the book. The publication of the volume in the cultural climate of that time corresponds to the period in which the authors were subject to the humiliation of passing through the Caudine Forks of socialist realism, while reception criticism would judge them using Inquisition-like methods. Preda’s early prose writings and Moromeții faced the situations above. Existentially, until the appearance of the novel that brought him fame, Marin Preda had experienced a tumultuous existence, full of failures and traumatising episodes
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- 2023
50. Socialist Realist theatre in the Soviet Union in the 1930s : forming a social identity
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Polychronidou, Sofia, Smith, Alexandra, and Swarbrick, Katharine
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792 ,Socialist Realism ,theatre ,Konstantin Stanislavsky ,Vsevolod Meyerhold ,Soviet Union - Abstract
The aim of this thesis is to use the socialist realist theatre example to examine the theatre’s ability to form social identities. This is a difficult task because, for a start, the theory has failed – thus far – to give socialist realism a single definition. Very often, socialist realism was solely related to its political connotations and judged as such, a fact that often compromised research findings and underestimated the complexity of the phenomenon. This thesis addresses this shortcoming and follows more recent research, which indicates that early post-revolution socialist realism constituted a distinct artistic movement with its distinguishable traits. From this perspective, the present thesis reports on whether the critical analysis received by socialist realist theatre during the first decades after the Revolution constitutes evidence of the formative power of theatre. In other words, the thesis investigates to what extent the debate on the aesthetics of the new socialist theatre – during the 1920s and 1930s – shaped the social characteristics of the public. The thesis aims to enable theatre practitioners and theorists today to understand the relationship between the social needs of people and theatre’s ability to function as the vehicle for achieving them. Using two leading theatres (the Meyerhold Theatre, and the Moscow Art Theatre) of the time (1928-1939) as case studies, this thesis demonstrates that – in both cases – the theatre directors were both implementers and interpreters of their understanding of this new socialist world, and examines the role of the reviews received in light of this interpretation. Finally, the significance of this study is that it expands our theoretical understanding of how theatre operates as the driving force in the formation of the social identity of any given audience, at any given historical time.
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- 2020
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