Usilit' bor'bu s formalizmom [11-04-1933] - [D089]

Concise description of the directive:

The slogan of searching for new forms is one of the masks of formalism that tends to destroy old forms. Formalism struggles against socialist realism under the guise of “innovation”. Formalism separates art from reality, distancing it from the popular masses; it expresses bourgeois ideology through art and poisons artists.