Women's Role in the USSR: Vintage Propaganda Posters
The USSR was the first country in the world to give women the same marital rights as their husbands. Women played a significant and extraordinary role in the USSR. They were expected to not only fulfil their domestic duties but also to take up arms, respond to the needs of the nation and defend their homeland.
They were celebrated as equals in Soviet art, working alongside men in the fields and factories. Propaganda posters served a powerful purpose in engaging and encouraging women to work towards the Socialist utopia. Read more
White Bird with Black Mark | Russia | 1971
£400
USSR Constitution Days | Russia | 1980s
£600
Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company Tour of the USSR | Russia | 1977
£2500
To the Height of Sports Prowess | Russia | 1977
£400
Publication | Russia | 1989
£600
Night at Karlstejn | Poland | 1974
£350
Grow More Soybeans | Vietnam | 1981
£750
Swallow | Poland | 1972
£250
The Blizzard | Poland | 1964
£350
What a Lark! | Poland | 1976
£250
Nightingale | Poland | 1979
£200
Warsaw Tourism Days | Poland | 1981
£300
Early Cancer is Treatable | Lithuania | 1980
£500
Zorba the Greek | Lithuania | 1968
£200
My Brother Has a Cool Brother | Poland | 1975
£300
Circus on Stage | Russia | 1970s
£750
A Rock-Style Tragedy | Lithuania | 1989
£250
Work with the Most Effort | Ukraine | 1985
£150
World Festival, Moscow | Russia | 1985
£500
Flora | Russia | 1990
£600
Call Me Lawyer | Hungary | 1967
£650
Living Together | Poland | 1973
£250
How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder | Poland | 1972
£350
Hello to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | Russia | 1972
£200
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