Pop Culture without the USSR

there are plenty of timelines that have been written which include a POD/butterfly effect which makes it so that the USSR doesnt exist. as we all know, the presence of the USSR and communism ITTL had a huge effect on popular culture, such as with Nineteen-Eighty-Four and Animal Farm.

my question is this: assuming works comparable to these ones and others are written in a no-USSR ATL, what do you all think their general differences from the OTL works be? use whatever no-USSR ATLs you want for your examples
 
Socialism should be more acceptable without the red scare

Uh—the Red Scares in US culture began, respectively, in the strength of the IWW and the strength of wildcats turning official in the AFL-CIO in the immediate post-war period.

Elsewhere in the world, persecution of movements advocating capitalism run in the interests of workers, or a new economic system have proceeded apace without particular reference to the Soviet Union except as a dressing gown over white reaction.

It'd pay to look at anti-socialist propaganda prior to the formation of the Soviet Union. It is just as virulent.

(In addition, according to the studies I've read, working class culture is relatively autonomous of attempts at bourgeois hegemony formation; so this whole ideological culture leads the actual situation on the ground seems tailored to only deal with official pop culture.)

yours,
Sam R.
 
Uh—the Red Scares in US culture began, respectively, in the strength of the IWW and the strength of wildcats turning official in the AFL-CIO in the immediate post-war period.

Elsewhere in the world, persecution of movements advocating capitalism run in the interests of workers, or a new economic system have proceeded apace without particular reference to the Soviet Union except as a dressing gown over white reaction.

It'd pay to look at anti-socialist propaganda prior to the formation of the Soviet Union. It is just as virulent.

(In addition, according to the studies I've read, working class culture is relatively autonomous of attempts at bourgeois hegemony formation; so this whole ideological culture leads the actual situation on the ground seems tailored to only deal with official pop culture.)

yours,
Sam R.

Yeah I know about all that
But "Stalin's Dystopia" was something with solid figure that you could actually point too and the nuclear scare as well that shaped the whole 50's and 60's.
 
A lot will depend on if there is an alternate cold war. I think that had more effect on pop culture than the USSR.
 
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