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Stalin changed the art scene of the USSR to promote a happy and productive image of Soviet life, often linked to agriculture and communist principles. This new genre created was called Socialist Realism.

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Stalin in conversation with Gorky

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"Classical principles and realism in music."
Typical to many of Stalin's changes to culture during his regime, music and art saw a shift towards the traditional that had been molded to honour the Soviet regime. Any music or art that expressed opposing political or social views was strictly prohibited.

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Stalin made persistent attempts to nationalise all aspects of entertainment, but despite this, the private jazz scene experienced a revival under Stalin, and an interesting dynamic between state-sponsored vs creative culture emerged.

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Ice-skaters at Gorky Park enjoy Stalin's entertainment developments that promoted a sense of fun under the regime.

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Kazakh women in a kolkhoz faced new expectations for menial labour as Stalin prioritised his collectivisation policy which led to a cultural shift around women in the workforce.

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Women in Russia respected a modest standard of pre-marital chastity and purity yet faced additional expectations for help on the labour front with industrialisation.

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The role of women in Soviet Russia was perceived as strictly traditional yet still as involved in the workforce as possible.

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Anti Religious propaganda in a Soviet newspaper. Stalin's cultural change shifted society towards atheism and worship of the communist regime ahead of the Orthodox Church

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December 1931, Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is destroyed by Soviet authorities as Stalin opposed religious institutions to transform Soviet culture away from religion.

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Digital copy of the Soviet school curriculum. Note the focus on subjects such as 'agricultural economy' and 'machine operation' as well as a stress on Sciences and constitution studies/

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Original Source: P. N. Shimbirev and I. T. Ogorodnikov, Pedagogika (Moscow, 1955), p. 103.

There are six features of this program of study which merit special attention. In the first place, all children follow the same curriculum from the first grade to the tenth, except for differentiation between the sexes in the realm of military-physical preparation and opportunity to choose among foreign languages, if two or more are offered in the same school. In the second place, all ten-year schools throughout the Soviet Union teach the same subjects in the same grades, except the non-Russian schools in which the Russian language is taught as an additional subject from the third to the tenth grade inclusive. In the third place, the school year is long, ranging from 213 days in the first three grades to 230 in the tenth, and the school week embraces six days. In the fourth place, the curriculum emphasizes the native language, mathematics, and physical science. Moreover, according to the plan, the Soviet pupil is carried much further in mathematics and science than the American pupil. Though not stated in the table, mathematics includes trigonometry, as well as astronomy. And the study of physics and chemistry begins in the sixth and seventh grades respectively. Both science and mathematics are classified as "important subjects." In the fifth place, the study of foreign languages, usually English, German, and French, is taken very seriously. Instruction begins in the fifth grade. In the sixth place, systematic physical education is provided in all grades from the first to the tenth for the purpose of "cultivating such qualities in the younger generation as bravery, persistence and will." The reader should not forget those gold and silver medals shining and beckoning in the distance which open freely the doors to the higher schools.

Remark. The number of class weeks in a year, not including the time devoted to examinations, is 34; of them 33 weeks are reserved to the study of class subjects and one week to excursions.

Source: George S. Counts, The Challenge of Soviet Education (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1957), pp. 76-77.

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Original Source: P. N. Shimbirev and I. T. Ogorodnikov, Pedagogika (Moscow, 1955), p. 103. There are six features of this program of study which merit special attention. In the first place, all children follow the same curriculum from the first grade to the tenth, except for differentiation between the sexes in the realm of military-physical preparation and opportunity to choose among foreign languages, if two or more are offered in the same school.

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Modern Book (secondary source) featuring a propaganda image overset on a school institution. The children's uniforms and school design illustrated Stalin's crackdown on educational discipline during his period of cultural reform.

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School children salute to a portrait of Stalin in 1936 following the Education Decree and a steady infiltration of Stalin indoctrination in schools.