Socialist realism
Socialist realism (a term invented by literary critic Ivan Gronsky) was the official style of art in the USSR. Introduced in the 1930s, it became the main style of creativity, designed to glorify Soviet reality, party policy, and labor, while reinforcing the belief in a near and bright communist future.
Authors who did not share socialist realist views on writing didn’t have many chances to gain success. Novels by Viktor Petrov, which could hardly be called socialist realism, were kept in a drawer for a long time, and Petrov was silent for many years, unable to write the way he wanted to. The same applies to the texts of Vasyl Holoborodko, Mykola Vorobiov, and the authors of the Replaced Generation, who were not allowed to publish freely in the Ukrainian SSR.