The War Years, Stalinist Repression, and Women Navigating the Animation Industry

In the 1940s and 1950s Soviet animation and women animators struggled to find their niche within the educational and entertainment industry and within Soviet culture. While there was the potential for more women to assume creative positions when World War II forced many men into active duty, women’s work in animation was, in fact, even more marginalized than it had been in the 1920s and 1930s. By the 1940s animation was drastically transformed into a medium of propaganda for Soviet children. Women had more difficulty asserting female agency in their animation as a result of external pressures, including the silencing