In the Party Spirit: socialist Realism and Literary Practice in the Soviet Union, East Germany and China.(Review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: October 1, 2000| Author: Ellis, N.J. | Copyright information

In the Party Spirit: Socialist Realism and Literary Practice in the Soviet Union, East Germany and China. Ed. by HILARY CHUNG. (Critical Studies, 6) Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. 1996. xviii + 191 pp.

'Socialist realism', observed Czeslaw Milosz in The Captive Mind (1953), 'is much more than a matter of taste, of preference for one style of painting or music rather than another. It is concerned with beliefs which lie at the foundation of human existence'. And so it turn...

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