Variable factors in literary critical evaluation (on the examples of selected literary critical polemics from the 1930s and 1940s) by Martin Makara

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Polskie kino lat 1949–1955 wobec realizmu socjalistycznego. Ideologiczna mobilizacja jako kontekst dla myśli pedagogicznej by Marek Sokołowski

“…The article concerns a specific period in the history of Polish cinematography, called socialist realism (1949–1954). The new style of filmmaking (according to the ideology of the Polish Communist Party), was imposed by the filmmakers, but was not accepted by the cinema audience. …”
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The architectural beginnings of Bogdan Bogdanović: The residential settlement of the Hydrotechnical Institute on the foothills of Avala by Janakova-Grujić Mare B.

“…Through its projection in the early 1950s, as a kind of garden village with a grape-like structure and free disposition, with houses made of hand-hewn stone, its architect Bogdan Bogdanović not only radically stepped out of the practice and theory of residential architecture and urbanism of the time, in opposition to the dogma of Socialist Realism, but manifested through its design a logical continuation and tangible result of his extensive reflections on the new Yugoslav architecture and a more humane society. …”
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“Новая литература не возникает как пистолетный выстрел в ночи”. Об институциональных границах первых советских массовых писательских объединений... by Dar’ia Moskovskaia, Vagif Guseinov

“…These dynamics include nationwide tense discussions among writers about funding mechanisms, continued ‘showdowns’ with enemy-colleagues, the development of the concept of socialist realism as a method for unifying writers of various social backgrounds, the “organization of total control in the literary sphere” (Frezinskii), and the complete loss (through the Charter and other practices) of institutionally formalized creative freedom for members of the Writers’ Union. …”
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