...-Stalinism era revolutionary romanticism politico-ideological project of Stalinism Joseph Stalin Marrist concept linguistic revolution Marxism In Fedor Abramov’s novel Paths and Crossroads, which tells a story about postwar life in a northern village, after a couple of drinks certain...

... explores romanticism as a component from the very beginning of Socialist Realism, which proclaimed “life in its revolutionary development” as its object. It explains how Socialist Realism absorbed revolutionary romanticism and transformed it into state romanticism, which assumed its definitive shape...

... Ushakov” in 1953. The chapter emphasizes how historicism had to become part of Soviet aesthetic doctrine, part of the system of flexible, dialectically contradirectional principles of Socialist Realism, and to become a hybrid of “the truth of life” and “revolutionary romanticism.” It discusses...