TY  - GEN
A1  - Wood, Elizabeth A.
T1  - Gendered bodies on Soviet posters, 1917-1924. The visual representation of backwardness
N2  - In this essay, I explore the visual representation of that backwardness. For revolutionaries of all stripes, a core value in the revolution was overcoming Russia’s backwardness. In Russian it literally meant “lagging behind” [otstalost], but it had a wide compass to include illiteracy, superstition, drunkenness, syphilis, lack of culture, and lack of political engagement. I ask how early Soviet artists conveyed this backwardness – especially as synonymous not only with ignorance, but also with “darkness” and a lack of revolutionary consciousness. How did they compose posters for the masses in those early years of Soviet power, especially during the extensive civil and national wars of 1917-1921? How and why was gender such an important part of that visual imagery?
Y1  - 2025
UR  - https://zeitgeschichte-digital.de/doks/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2953
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2511250056430.318187379205
UR  - https://visual-history.de/2025/10/20/wood-gendered-bodies-on-soviet-posters-1917-1924/
PB  - ZZF - Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History: Visual-History
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -