The Birth of the Soviet Woman: The Worker, the Peasant, the Pilot, the “Former Person”, and Other Women in Art, 1917–1939

The book provides a detailed art historical analysis of the range of “new woman” types constructed by the Soviet authorities in the 1920 and 1930s. The author reveals how closely propaganda and polittical agitation were interwined with social change and innovation in art, while also suggesting that we should look at early Soviet gender reform as the basis for this varity of artistic solutions.