Flashcards: Socialist realism

The Volkstum (lit. folkdom or folklore, though the meaning is wider than the common usage of folklore) is the entire utterances of a Volk or ethnic minority over its lifetime, expressing a "Volkscharakter" this unit had in common.

The Lembaga Kebudajaan Rakjat (EYD Lembaga Kebudayaan Rakyat, often abbreviated Lekra; meaning Institute for the People's Culture) was a literary and social movement associated with the Indonesian Communist Party.

Rabochiy i Kolkhoznitsa (Worker and Kolkhoz Woman) (Russian: Рабо́чий и колхо́зница Rabochiy i Kolkhoznitsa) is a sculpture of two figures with a sickle and a hammer raised over their heads.

The Academy of Sciences (Latvian: Zinātņu akadēmija) is the official science academy of Latvia and is an association of the country's foremost scientists.

Nikolai Pavlovich Khmelyov Russian: Николай Павлович Хмелёв, 10 August [O.

How the Steel Was Tempered (Russian: Как закалялась сталь, Kak zakalyalas' stal') is a socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936).

The Palace of Culture and Science (Polish: Pałac Kultury i Nauki, also abbreviated PKiN) is a notable high-rise building in Warsaw, Poland.

Casa Presei Libere (meaning House of the Free Press) is a building in northern Bucharest, Romania, the tallest in the city between 1956 and 2007.

Portrait of Yevgeny Mravinsky is a painting by Russian portrait artist Lev Russov (1926–1987), whose work depicts the famous Russian and Soviet musician Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Mravinsky (1903—1988), principal conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra in 1938–1988 years.

Born of the Storm is a socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936) during Joseph Stalin's era.

Andrei Lvovich Abrikosov (Russian: Андрей Львович Абрикосов; 14 November 1906 – 21 October 1973) was a Soviet stage and film actor.

Boris Vasilyevich Shchukin (Russian: Бори́с Васи́льевич Щу́кин) (April 17 [O.S. April 5] 1894, Moscow - October 7, 1939, Moscow) was a Soviet actor and People's Artist of the USSR (1936).

The Fine Art of Leningrad is an important component of twentieth-century Russian Soviet art, in the opinion of the art historians Vladimir Gusev and Vladimir Leniashin "one of its most powerful currents".

The White-Haired Girl (Chinese: 白毛女; pinyin: Bái Máo Nǚ) is a Chinese opera, ballet, (later adapted to Beijing Opera and a film) by Yan Jinxuan to a Chinese libretto by He Jingzhi and Ding Yi.

The House of Creativity "Staraya Ladoga" was an all-Russian centre for artistic creativity, which existed in the Volkhovsky District of Leningrad Oblast from the mid-20th century up to the 1990s.

The Museum of Socialist Art (Bulgarian: Музей на социалистическото изкуство, Muzey na sotsialisticheskoto izkustvo) in Sofia, is a museum of art which covers the history of the communist regime in Bulgaria.

Boris Petrovich Chirkov (Russian: Борис Петрович Чирков; 13 August 1901 – 28 May 1982) was a Soviet actor.

Socialist realism in Poland (Polish: socrealizm) was a social, political, and esthetic doctrine enforced by the pro-Soviet communist government in the process of Stalinization of the postwar People's Republic of Poland.

The Palace of Culture of Tirana (Albanian: Pallati i Kulturës) was built on the Pazari i Vjeter area of Tirana by request of the Party of Labour of Albania.

A Woman's Burden (Georgian: ქალის ტვირთი; Qalis tvirti) is the last novel by Georgian novelist Mikheil Javakhishvili.

White Dawns (Macedonian: Бели мугри, Beli mugri) is a collection of poems by the famous Macedonian writer Kočo Racin (Кочо Рацин), published in 1939 in Samobor, near Zagreb, Croatia.