Structures of Lie algebras, Lie coalgebras, Lie bialgebras and Lie quasibialgebras are presented as solutions of Maurer-Cartan equations on corresponding governing differential graded Lie algebras using the big bracket construction of Kosmann-Schwarzbach. This approach provides a definition of an L∞-(quasi)bialgebra (strongly homotopy Lie (quasi)bialgebra). We recover an L∞-algebra structure as...