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Socialist realism was the official style in the arts in the Soviet Union from the early 1930s until the decline of Communism in the 1980s, disappearing entirely by the time of that country's dissolution in 1989.

The style was a conservative, figurative and narrative, meant to be accessible to all viewers, and never to deviate from the Party line.