The Birth of the Soviet Woman. Worker, Peasant, Aviatrix, "Former" and Others in Art from 1917 to 1939

The book presents a detailed art analysis of the whole range of ‘new woman’ types constructed by the Soviet authorities in the 1920s and 1930s.
The author shows how propaganda and agitation were closely connected with social change and innovation in art and offers a view of early Soviet gender reform as the basis for the emerged diversity of artistic solutions.