Korea: North Korean (DPRK) propaganda poster showing Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung striding through the rain accompanied by admiring DPRK soldiers, Pyongyang, c. 1985. Socialist Realism is a style of realistic art which developed under Socialism in the Soviet Union and became a dominant style in other communist countries. Socialist Realism is a teleologically-oriented style having as its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and communism. Although related, it should not be confused with Social Realism, a type of art that realistically depicts subjects of social concern.

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