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"Collective Farm Harvest Festival" (1937)
Sergei Gerasimov's "Collective Farm Harvest Festival" of 1937 is a perfect example of high socialist realism. The happy collective is presented with great realistic detail (not that any collective farm actually looked like this). Bodies are muscular, abundant food is on the tables. The whole is bathed in a warm glow of light, symbolizing the bright socialist future which appears to have more or less been achieved. The final scene of Kirshon's play Bread should have looked something like this.