Social life and artistic talent: Kyiv, Publishing house of fiction "Dnipro", 1972, 308 p.

The author examines the position of art in the communist society in the context of humanity, a significant part of which is, as he puts it, the bourgeoisie. As a member of the Communist Party, the author defends Soviet art against bourgeois criticism and shows the foundations of Soviet art. The consideration of the state of Soviet art aims to protect it from the attacks of the bourgeoisie and to highlight the principles on which the art and aesthetics of the Communist Party can fully exercise their socially active role.

CONTENT

Foreword

A force that transforms the world (V. I. Lenin on the social activity of art)

Quality of the extraordinary value (nature of artistic talent)

At the behest of the heart (communist partisanship of Soviet art)

A powerful tool for artistic reproduction of human life (socialist realism as a creative method)

Summary of knowledge of reality compressed in time (intuitive in the artist's creative pursuits)

In the grip of alienation (class restriction of freedom of artistic creativity in capitalist society)

Wings of true creative freedom (communism and freedom of artistic creativity)

"I will speak for everyone, I will get sick for everyone…" (creative freedom and social responsibility of the artist)

Humane and joyful art (socialist humanism and historical optimism of Soviet art)