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Socialist Realism

37 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Agniya BartoAuthor · BooksAgniya Lvovna Barto (А́гния Льво́вна Барто́; 17 February 1901 – 1 April 1981) was a Russian Soviet poet and children's writer of Belarusian Jewish origin.
Aleksey TolstoyAuthor · BooksAleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (– 23 February 1945) was a Russian and Soviet writer whose works span across many genres, but mainly belonged to science fiction and historical fiction.
Alexander FadeyevAuthor · BooksAlexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev (24 December 1901 – 13 May 1956) was a Soviet writer, one of the co-founders of the Union of Soviet Writers and its chairman from 1946 to 1954.
Alexander YashinAuthor · BooksAlexander Yakovlevich Yashin (March 27, 1913 – July 11, 1968) was a Soviet writer associated with the Village Prose movement.
Anatoly SofronovAuthor · BooksAnatoly Vladimirovich Sofronov (19 January 1911 – 9 September 1990) was a Soviet Russian writer, poet, playwright, screenwriter, editor (Ogoniok, 1953–1986) and literary administrator, the…
Arkady PlastovArtist · PaintingsArkady Alexandrovich Plastov (31 January 1893 – 12 May 1972) was a Russian Soviet painter.
Boris CarageaArtist · SculptureBoris Caragea (24 January 1906 — 8 August 1982) was a Romanian monumental sculptor and Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy.
Boris LavrenyovAuthor · BooksBoris Andreyevich Lavrenyov (Russian: Борис Андреевич Лавренёв) (real name Sergeyev), (16 July [O.S. 4 July] 1891 – 7 January 1959) was a Soviet Russian writer and playwright.
Corneliu BabaIllustrator · IllustrationCorneliu Baba (18 November 1906, Craiova – 28 December 1997) was a Romanian painter, primarily a portraitist, but also known as a genre painter and an illustrator of books.
Emilian BukovAuthor · BooksEmilian Bucov or Bukov (– 17 October 1984) was a Soviet and Moldavian writer and poet, recognized with the State Prize of the Moldavian SSR and honorary title of People's Writer of the…
Giovanni De MartinoArtist · SculptureGiovanni de Martino (3/13 January 1870 – 3 March 1935) was an Italian sculptor. He made sentimental bronzes, often of street boys, fishermen or women.
Ilya SelvinskyAuthor · BooksIlya Lvovich Selvinsky (Russian: Илья Львович Сельвинский, 24 October 1899 – 22 March 1968) was a Soviet poet, dramatist, memoirist, and essayist born in Simferopol, Crimea.
Irmtraud MorgnerAuthor · BooksIrmtraud Morgner (22 August 19336 May 1990) was a German writer, best known for works of magical realism concerned predominantly with the role of gender in East German society.
Konstantin SavitskyIllustrator · IllustrationKonstantin Apollonovich Savitsky (25 May 1844 — 31 January 1905) was a Russian painter in the Realist style, active during Tsars Alexander II through Nicholas II's reigns, primarily known…
Louis AragonAuthor · BooksLouis Aragon (French: [lwi aʁaɡɔ̃]; 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France.
Margarita AligerAuthor · BooksMargarita Iosifovna Aliger (Маргари́та Ио́сифовна Алиге́р; née Zeliger; October 7 1915 – August 1, 1992) was a Soviet-Russian poet, translator, and journalist.
Matvey Genrikhovich ManizerArtist · PaintingsMatvey Genrikhovich Manizer (Russian: Матвей Генрихович Манизер; 17 March [O.S. 5 March] 1891 – 20 December 1966) was a Russian sculptor.
Maxim GorkyAuthor · BooksAlexei Maximovich Peshkov (– 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, and proponent of socialism.
Mikhaïl LoukonineAuthor · BooksMikhail Kuzmich Lukonin (October 29, 1918 – August 4, 1976) was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer and war correspondent.
Mikhail MatusovskyAuthor · BooksIllustration — Matusovsky in 1945
Mikhail PlyatskovskyAuthor · BooksMikhail Spartakovich Plyatskovsky (1935–1991) was a Soviet playwright, poet and songwriter.
Mikhail SholokhovAuthor · BooksMikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Михаил Александрович Шолохов; – 21 February 1984) was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Mykola BazhanAuthor · BooksMykola Platonovych Bazhan (– 23 November 1983) was a Soviet Ukrainian writer, poet, highly decorated political and public figure.
Nikolai TikhonovAuthor · BooksNikolai Semenovich Tikhonov (Николай Семёнович Тихонов; 4 December 1896 – 8 February 1979) was a Soviet writer, poet and public figure. Hero of Socialist Labour (1966).
Oles HoncharAuthor · BooksOleksandr "Oles" Terentiiovych Honchar (Bilychenko [Біличе́нко]; 3 April 1918 – 14 July 1995) was a Soviet and Ukrainian writer and public figure.
Rasul GamzatovAuthor · BooksRasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov (Ħamzatazul Rasul Ħamzatil vas, ħamzatil rasul; Расу́л Гамза́тович Гамза́тов; 8 September 19233 November 2003) was a Soviet and Russian poet who wrote in Avar.
Sergei YutkevichPerson · Film memorabiliaSergei Iosifovich Yutkevich (28 December 1904 – 23 April 1985) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1962) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1974).
Sergey MikhalkovAuthor · BooksSergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov (27 August 2009) was a Russian author of children's books and satirical fables. He wrote the lyrics for the Soviet and Russian national anthems.
Sergey Timofeyevich KonyonkovArtist · SculptureSergey Timofeyevich Konenkov, also Sergei Konyonkov (– 9 December 1971) was a Russian and Soviet sculptor. He was often called "the Russian Rodin".
Sergey UrusevskyPerson · Film memorabiliaSergey Pavlovich Urusevsky (23 December 1908, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire - 12 November 1974, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet cinematographer and film director, renowned for his…
Viktor GusevAuthor · BooksViktor Mikhaylovich Gusev (Ви́ктор Миха́йлович Гу́сев; 30 January 1909 – 23 January 1944) wrote lyrics to accompany several patriotic Soviet military tunes, including 'Polyushko Pole' and…
Wojciech WeissArtist · PaintingsWojciech Weiss (4 May 1875 – 7 December 1950) was a prominent Polish painter and draughtsman of the Young Poland movement.
Yaroslav SmelyakovAuthor · BooksYaroslav Vasilyevich Smelyakov (8 January 1913 – 27 November 1972) was a Russian Soviet poet, critic and translator.
Zaharia StancuAuthor · BooksZaharia Stancu (Romanian pronunciation: [zahaˈri.a ˈstaŋku]; October 7, 1902 – December 5, 1974) was a Romanian prose writer, novelist, poet, and philosopher.
ZulfiyaAuthor · BooksZulfiya Isroilova, known by her pen name Zulfiya (in Cyrillic Зулфия; 1 March 1915 in Tashkent, Russian Empire – 1 August 1996 in Tashkent,[3] Uzbekistan) was a Soviet and Uzbek writer.

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