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«IZVESTIYA IRKUTSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA». SERIYA «POLITOLOGIYA. RELIGIOVEDENIE»
«THE BULLETIN OF IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY». SERIES «POLITICAL SCIENCE AND RELIGION STUDIES»
ISSN 2073-3380 (Print)

List of issues > Series «Political Science and Religion Studies». 2022. Vol 42

Socialist Realism VS Religion

Author(s)
M. A. Shchukina
Abstract
The phenomenon of Soviet literature is a controversial chapter in the Russian history of the 20th century which was dominated by socialist ideology and where relations between the authors and the authorities were regulated by special rules. Thus, the literature of the Soviet period was characterized by its driving ambition to realize its place in time and space. Now experts agree that it integrated various sets of values. Soviet literature was used for educational, ideological, political and other purposes. This article explores the relation between ideology, religion and art using the example of socialist realism literature. The fact that the topic of religion fell by the wayside in the age of scientific atheism and socialist realism is of great interest for religion studies. The author aims to define the role of religion in the Soviet ideological and cultural process. This article examines various instruments of socialist realism, verifies dependence of literature on the society and value systems of the time, as well as analyzes relevant articles of distinguished scholars in culture and literature studies. The main result of this research is proving the existence of psychological component in socialist realism, alongside with the ideological and artistic ones.
About the Authors
Shchukina Maria Alekseevna, Postgraduate, Department of Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University, GSP-1, 27-4, Lomonosovskij av., Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation, e-mail: masha.filkina.1@mail.ru
For citation
Shchukina M. A. Socialist Realism VS Religion. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Political Science and Religion Studies, 2022, vol. 42, pp. 128-134. https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2022.42.128 (in Russian)
Keywords
religion, ideology, Soviet literature, socialist realism, creative method, sovietology.
UDC
291
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2022.42.128
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