Sofia Petrovna Sparknotes

While analyzing the literally content these last couple of weeks, something that been present through them all is presence of social realism. Social realism is term that could be used in many ways specifically its applied to the state run or imported art that is produced in Russia, which generally displays the leader in an idealized situation. For example, an image of Stalin surrounded by happy children in an idealized fashion promoting a mass murderer. In the reading by Sofia Petrovna, we see this character go through a psychological adaption in order to cope living in that era. Even if you already predict the tragic ending, the story still tries to convince and portray a sense of false security to its audience and because of this Sofia Petrovna
It is almost as if she is isolated by everyone who knows what’s happening, it seems as if Stalins regime has full control over her. She starts to build her cocoon of lies to a maximum, thinking Koylas been released by the soviet government and becomes silent with everyone to avoid any trouble. By the end of the book she defines someone that soviets wanted. She put the soviets ahead of close relationships by her isolation, she accepts what the soviets are doing is proper even though her son is in a labor camp. By being silent she becomes an ideal citizen who will not rebel or become a threat to Stalin and is willing to give up her own son life burning his letter. At the end when she burns that letter, the cog in a way stops as a true soviet citizen has been accomplished and breaks though her cocoon of lies to serve the government that she believes in. The story isn't about a woman laboring under Stalinism so much as it is about a woman laboring under her own illusion that Stalinism is sincere. Sofia shows the dark implications about our cravings for