Lili Brik and the New Soviet Woman: A Lunchtime Talk with Anastasia Skoybedo, 14 May 2025
Join us at Kettle’s Yard for a lunchtime talk alongside our current display Mari Mahr: Lili Brik.
This talk will look at how Lili Brik’s position, as both muse and socialite, reflected the changing gender norms and the status of women in the decades following the Russian revolution. We will discuss the depictions of women in popular visual culture and art to illuminate the nuances and contradictions that existed in Soviet society in the 1920s and 1930s as the establishment of the new social order was taking place.
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Join us at Kettle’s Yard for a lunchtime talk alongside our current display Mari Mahr: Lili Brik.
This talk will look at how Lili Brik’s position, as both muse and socialite, reflected the changing gender norms and the status of women in the decades following the Russian revolution. We will discuss the depictions of women in popular visual culture and art to illuminate the nuances and contradictions that existed in Soviet society in the 1920s and 1930s as the establishment of the new social order was taking place.
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