33. Global Socialist Realism: The Representation of Non-European Cultures in Polish Art of the 1950s
Journal: Central European University Press eBooks
Year: 2016

T he expansion of socialist realism in post-1945 Central and Eastern Eu- rope came as a result of the Yalta division of the Old Continent and the implementation of new cultural policy in the communist states, closely linked to political demands imposed by the Soviet Union.Among the principal factors behind this process was a belief in the universalism of socialist realist ideology, its pictorial form and worldwide application.As the successive art centers in Soviet-occupied Europe converted to t