Socialist realism, however, was conforming to the Communist state: it “affirm[s] positive aspects of Soviet society, and exalt man …show more content…
Every work had to have a happy ending in which the proletariat cause is justified and glorified.
In this way, socialist realism’s relationship with politics was extremely significant in ways that no other art form’s ever was. Therefore, socialist realism was not just a cessation of the Russian tradition of art and literature, but a “completely new and unique phenomenon” in the world tradition (Dobrenko