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Stalin required artists and writers to follow a style called Socialist realism.

Its Goal was to show Soviet life in a positive light. Artist and writers could criticize the bourgeois past, but their overall message has to promote hope in socialist future. Popular themes for socialist realist artists were peasants, workers, and heroes of the Revolution and, Of course, Stalin

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Act in Russian language being confirmed to initiate Soviet realism

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Stalin used propaganda to win the hearts and minds of soviet citizens.
Stalin attempted to increase faith in communism and in himself, he made himself seem like a god-like figure.
Used posters, news, radio.
Modern technology was used to spread the "good" in communism and the evils of capitalism, propaganda, within schools, factories, villages and all soviet citizens.
Stalin required artist and writers to go along with socialist realism.
The state controlled what artist and writers could put out in the country.
Those who disobeyed the socialist realism ways were not treated well for example Osip Mandelstam, whom was imprisoned, tortured, and exiled for composing a satirical verse about stalin.