Political economy of socialist realism Socialism as will and representation Metamorphosis of production forces 1 : (ideo bio agrobio)logy of the socialist realist body Metamorphosis of production forces 2 : socialist realism as a by product of coercion Socialist relations of production: lechery for labor Narrative as the means of producing socialism : the milk of the present and the curds of history Bildungsfilm : the birth of the socialist realist hero from the flesh of productive forces ; the birth of melodrama from the spirit of industrial relations Consumption of production : discursive strategies for consuming the facts of growth Marketing and consumption of transformative discourses : strangers in their own land The product : Aleksandr Dovzhenkos created space