From critical to socialist realism

The creative path of Smirnensky, his development, his method have been directly or indirectly considered by almost everyone who has written about the great writer. And if this problem again attracts our attention, the reason for this is its relevance. Overcoming past artistic trends, schools and methods and mastering and developing the method of socialist realism - this is the main content of the literary process in our country for the quarter-century free development of our national literature. The problem of overcoming the worldview and creative limitations of the writers critical realists, modernists, etc. and their transition to the positions of socialist realism - this is the epochal task in the development of world literature; a task whose solution depends on the outcome of the great duel between labor and capital, between bourgeois and socialist ideology.