Socialist Realism
A binding doctrine for every Soviet writer and artist which was formulated in 1934. Its goal was an understandable to the masses art, which be able to inspire in people the admiration and the respect for the worker and to the goal of building of communism. The idealization of heroic labor and the laborer was the most common subject and the techniques that were used came from the realistic and naturalistic tradition. Finally, the Communist Party recognized broad powers in relation to the guidance and the "discipline" of artists, with the aim of shaping values "engineers of the soul" (in the words of Stalin himself).