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socialist realism

art style depicting communist values
Intangible art_movement Q180902
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Summary

socialist realism is an art movement[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of art movement entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,285 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Influenced by: AKhRR[3], communism[4]
  • Country: Soviet Union[5]
  • Instance of: art style[6]
  • Commons category: Socialist realism[7]
  • Inception: 1932[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Socialist realism[9]
  • Commons gallery: Socialist realism[10]
  • Described by source: Dresdner Hefte[11]
  • Short name: соцреализм[12], socrealizmas[13], сацрэалізм[14], соцреалізм[15]
  • Different from: social realism[16]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17]

Why It Matters

socialist realism has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 58 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

Agniya Barto Aleksandr Tvardovsky Aleksey Tolstoy Alexander Fadeyev Andrei Zhdanov Boris Barnet Eldar Ryazanov Fyodor Abramov Grigori Aleksandrov Grigori Chukhrai Isaak Brodsky Konstantin Savitsky Konstantin Simonov Lyubov Orlova Margarita Aliger Maxim Gorky Mikhail Sholokhov Mykola Bazhan Nikolay Cherkasov Rasul Gamzatov Sergei Eisenstein Sergey Mikhalkov Tatyana Lioznova Vyacheslav Tikhonov

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → socialist-realism
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: socialist-realism, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289960126|socialist realism (#289960126)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Har"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0214506-socialisticky-realismus-umeni
    Wikidata description → art style depicting communist values
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0214506-socialisticky-realismus-umeni, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
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