The totalitarian society like a stock-breeder forms a certain kind of people. It is based on mutual control. Espial and delation become the essence and meaning of life of the state machine's mere cogs.

In the civil society people are able not only to look but also to see. Not only to listen, but also to hear. And the most important - to think.

See also Soviet art Publicistic art of the Soviet time shows a contrast between the official state ideology and the real life.

Socialist realism Some of the early works by Pyotr Lukyanenko can be an original example of the socialist realism movement.
communist art