| Automatic for the Masses: The Death of the Author and the Birth of Socialist Realism Subjects: Socialist realism; Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Soviet Union; Socialist realism in art -- Soviet Union; Modernism (Art) -- Soviet Union; In Automatic for the Masses, Petre M. Petrov offers a novel, theoretically informed account of the transition from modernism to Socialist Realism, tracing their connections through Modernist notions of agency and authorship. Petrov Petre M. : Petre M. Petrov is an assistant professor of Russian at the University of Texas at Austin. |