Eugene, in the magazine The Director-info at one time preparing a review article on your question:
http://www.directorinfo.ru/Article.a...98&iid=643
Article oldish, but the ideas do not change.
In socialist realism, too, is conditional first names: Alexander Deineka, George Nyssa, Viktor Popkov, Tair Salakhov, Yuri Pimenov course (remember the woman from behind the wheel of the machine in the film "New Moscow"?). Now the city with posters of works from the Tretyakov Gallery is decorated - at somewhere already seen Deineko type "future pilots".
These people are mindful of masterpieces. But in general, need otnrositsya very balanced. It often happens that the name loudly, and work perfectly prohodrnaya, many sketches, things nabrosochnyh, unfinished. In general, the name-the name, but the first thing one should pay attention to the quality of work. Socialist realism regarding the topic of fashion, but you should not fool ourselves. It is not contempt for "a social" and "realism", just IMHO the most part, weak wingless painting. Summary: You can invest, but masterpieces. They, incidentally, and auctions are already th-th - at the expense of hundreds of thousands.