Russia: 'Freedom Loan'. Revolutionary Soviet poster featuring a bearded soldier on a plinth backed by a crowd waving red flags. Boris Mikajlovich Kustodiev, 1917

Socialist realism is a style of realistic art which was developed in the Soviet Union and became a dominant style in other communist countries. Socialist realism is a teleologically-oriented style having its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and communism.

Although related, it should not be confused with social realism, a type of art that realistically depicts subjects of social concern. Unlike social realism, socialist realism often glorifies the roles of the poor.

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