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

The Birth of the Soviet Woman provides a detailed art historical analysis of the range of “new woman” types constructed by the Soviet authorities in the 1920s and 1930s.

The author reveals how closely propaganda and political agitation were intertwined with social change and innovation in art, while also suggesting that we should look at early Soviet gender reform as the basis for this variety of artistic solutions.