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Marxism is one of the most influential and yet controversial intellectual and philosophical movements in the twentieth century. Some critics have viewed Marx’s theory of history as unscientific and rather religious, mythic, and literary. Following that, we can understand his philosophy of history as a narrative text and therefore analyze it with the tools of literary criticism. In Iran, socialist realism style was introduced in the mid-1320 sand arose to extend the teachings of Marx and socialism. Drawing on the structuralism of Tzvetan Todorov and Marxist historicism, this paper studies the structural similarities of some of the most famous novels of Persian socialist realism, namely, Dokhtar-e Ra’yat,[1] Chashmhayash,[2] and Hamsayeha.[3] According to Todorov’sGrammar of Narrative, all the actions in these Iranian socialist-realist novels and their Marxist narrative of history can be reduced to three fundamental and recurring propositions: (1) establishing of a new authoritarian order or capitalism (equilibrium); (2) the emergence of class consciousness (lack of equilibrium); (3) repression of the opponents in the Persian novels, or realization of a classless society in Marx’s approach (equilibrium).   [1]. The Daughter of the Common  Man [2]. Her Eyes [3]. The Neighbors

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Socialist, realist poetry is one of the important literary currents of Afghanistan in the recent decades, which has been highly promoted in the 1950s and 1960s in this country. The peak of this current transpired in late 1950s and early 1960s. the poets of this genre are modernist and usually write blank poems; although among them, poets who continue to compose classical poetry are also present. Overall, their poetry are reformist, and social in nature.
This current can be divided into two groups, prior and after the year 1978. The poems composed prior to the year 1978 maintain two main approaches of stating the appalling economic and social conditions and promoting the socialist ruling system. Meanwhile, the poems composed after the year 1978 until the fall of the communist regime, revolve round a number of topics; the most important of which include promotion of the political ruling system; and focus on the status of women.