Within music scholarship, alternative perspectives on Soviet art remain largely unexplored. There are, however, other approaches to understanding art created in Soviet Union. Nikolai Rakov (1908-1990), a Soviet-era composer, is also all too often received as a second-class socialist realistic composer. This ideology conditioned artists to make art accessible and nationalistic to serve the perceived needs of the Russian proletariat. It also has been interpreted as peasant kitsch art because of its seemingly unacademic and unchallenging theoretical language utilized in order to meet the expectations of Soviet communism. It has been considered "synthetic art," which ordinary citizens were forced to admire under the Soviet regime. Much socialist realism art from Soviet-era Russia has been misunderstood by scholars.
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