Socialist realism
From that important trend came the development of socialist realism, which was to dominate Soviet culture and artistic expression for over 60 years. Socialist realism, representing socialist ideologies, was an art movement that represented social and political contemporary life in the 1930s, from a left-wing standpoint. It depicted subjects of social concern; the proletariat strugglehardships of everyday life that the working class had to put up with, and heroically emphasized the values of the loyal communist workers.