Nikolai Kogout, A Propaganda Artist from the Young Soviet Union

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I came across this Soviet poster image from 1922 where Finland is portrayed as 

an aggressor against the newly established Soviet Union. I checked the artist, 

Nikolai Kogout (1891 - 1951), but didn't find much more about him. I did find a 

selection of his posters on New York Digital Library image collection (Harold M. 

Fleming papers: posters, 1917-1971).

Voevat' my ne khotim, no Sovety otstoim.
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Image Title:  Voevat' my ne khotim, no Sovety otstoim.

Alternate Title: [We Don't Want to Fight, But We'll Defend the Soviets.]

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist

Created Date: 1922

Medium: Chromolithograph

Specific Material Type: Prints

Item Physical Description: 1 print, 104 x 62 cm

Antanta gotovit novyi pokhod, smotri v oba.
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Image Title:  Antanta gotovit novyi pokhod, smotri v oba.

Alternate Title: [The Entente Prepares New Attack, Look at Both.]

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist

Created Date: 1920

Medium: Chromolithograph

Specific Material Type: Prints

Item Physical Description: 1 print, 45 x 71 cm

I-oe Maia.
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Image Title:  I-oe Maia. (Stikhi S.Gorodetskogo.)

Alternate Title: [May Day. (Verse by S.Gorodetskii.)]

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist

Created Date: 1919

Medium: Chromolithograph

Specific Material Type: Prints

Item Physical Description: 1 print, 71 x 54 cm

S Novym Godom!
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Image Title:  S Novym Godom!

Alternate Title: [Happy New Year!]

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist

Created Date: 1918

Medium: Chromolithograph

Specific Material Type: Prints

Item Physical Description: 1 print, 70 x 108 cm

Ot mraka k svetu. Ot bitvy k knige. Ot goria k schast'iu.
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Image Title:  Ot mraka k svetu. Ot bitvy k knige. Ot goria k schast'iu.

Alternate Title: Book with slogan: From darkness to light, 

from battle to books,from sadness to joy.

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist

Item Physical Description: 54 x 70 cm.

K vvedeniiu.
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Image Title:  K vvedeniiu

Alternate Title: The introduction [of 'Industrialization Day.']

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist

Additional Name(s): Soiuz voinstvuiushchikh bezbozhnikov SSSR.

TSentral'nyi sovet -- Associated name

Item/Page/Plate: p. 1

Source: Bezbozhnik

Source Description: 19 v. ill. (part col.), ports.(part col.) 30-35 cm.

16-i s"ezd VKP (b). V sotsialisticheskoe nastuplenie po vsemu frontu.
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Image Title:  16-i s"ezd VKP (b). V sotsialisticheskoe nastuplenie po vsemu frontu.

(Bezbozhnik u stanka, No. 13, 1930)

Alternate Title: Into the socialistic offensive along the entire front!

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist

Additional Name(s): Soiuz voinstvuiushchikh bezbozhnikov SSSR.

TSentral'nyi sovet -- Associated name

Item/Page/Plate: p. 9

Source: Bezbozhnik

Source Description: 19 v. ill. (part col.), ports.(part col.) 30-35 cm.

V strane "gospoda-boga", t.e. v S.-A. Soedinennykh Shtatakh.
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Image Title:  V strane "gospoda-boga", t.e. v S.-A. Soedinennykh Shtatakh.

Linchevanie negrov - eto samaia gnusnaia i arkhiomerzitel'naia forma proiavlenia

rasovoi nenavisti, vyrosshaia na pochve khristianskoi religii, naskvoz' elsploatatorskoi

i chelovekonenavistnicheskoi. Dlia burzhua i popov linchevanie - samoe vysokoe proiavlenie

kul'turnosti i khristianskoi morali, deistvie, ugodnoe gospodu-bogu. (Bezbozhnik

u stanka, No. 17-18, 1930)

Alternate Title: In God's country, that is, the United States of America.

The lynching of negroes, - the basest and most abominable form of expression

of race hatred, has thrived under the Christian religion which exploits and is

manhating through and through. For the bourgeoisie and the clergy lynching is the

highest expression of culture and Christian morals, and act pleasing in the sight of God.

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist

Additional Name(s): Soiuz voinstvuiushchikh bezbozhnikov SSSR.

TSentral'nyi sovet -- Associated name

Item/Page/Plate: p. 10

Source: Bezbozhnik

Source Description: 19 v. ill. (part col.), ports.(part col.) 30-35 cm.

Kul'tura sovetskaia i [...].
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Image Title:  Kul'tura sovetskaia i [...]. Sovremennyi proletariat stanovitsia na storonu

sotsialisma, kotoryi privlekaet nauku k bor'be s religioznym tumanom i osvobozhdaet

rabochego ot very v zagrobnuiu zhizn' tem, chto splachivaet ego dlia nastoiashchei

bor'by za luchshuiu zemnuiu zhizn'. (Lenin). [Bezbozhnik u stanka, November 1, 1930)

Alternate Title: Soviet culture and [...]. The contemporary proletariat is coming over

to the side of socialism which is drawing science into the fight against the fog of religion,

and is freeing the workers from belief in the hereafter by rallying them

for a better life on earth through fighting for it. (Lenin).

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist

Additional Name(s): Soiuz voinstvuiushchikh bezbozhnikov SSSR.

TSentral'nyi sovet -- Associated name

Item/Page/Plate: p. 13

Source: Bezbozhnik

Source Description: 19 v. ill. (part col.), ports.(part col.) 30-35 cm.

K 13-i godovshchine Krasnoi armii.
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Image Title:  K 13-i godovshchine Krasnoi armii. Krasnaia armiia - vernyi

zashchitnik SSSR, sotsialisticheskogo otechestva trudiashchikhsia vsego mira.

Da zdravstvuet Krasnaia armiia! (Bezbozhnik u stanka, No. 4, 1931)

Alternate Title: 13th Anniversary of the Red Army.

The Red Army - the true defender of the U.S.S.R., the socialistic fatherland of the toilers

of all the world. Long live the Red Army!

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist

Additional Name(s): Soiuz voinstvuiushchikh bezbozhnikov SSSR.

TSentral'nyi sovet -- Associated name

Item/Page/Plate: p. 16

Source: Bezbozhnik

Source Description: 19 v. ill. (part col.), ports.(part col.) 30-35 cm.

V kapitalisticheskom mire 35 millionov bezrabotnykh.
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Image Title:  V kapitalisticheskom mire 35 millionov bezrabotnykh.

Papa Pii XI: Terpi, syn moi, molis' gospodu, - on tia napitaet ... 

(Bezbozhnik u stanka, No. 8, 1931)

Alternate Title: 35 million unemployed in the capitalistic world.

Pope Pius XI: 'Be patient, my son, pray to the Lord, - He will feed you ...'

Creator(s): Urbetis, K. -- Artist 

Kogout, N. -- Artist

Additional Name(s): Soiuz voinstvuiushchikh bezbozhnikov SSSR.

TSentral'nyi sovet -- Associated name

Item/Page/Plate: p. 19

Source: Bezbozhnik

Source Description: 19 v. ill. (part col.), ports.(part col.) 30-35 cm.

Pervoe Maia za granitsei v 1931 g. Eto - pervomaiskii veter ...
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Image Title:  Pervoe Maia za granitsei v 1931 g. Eto - pervomaiskii veter ...

A skoro budet i oktiabr'skii uragan! (Bezbozhnik u stanka, No. 11, 1931)

Alternate Title: First of May abroad in 1931.

This is the May Day wind - but soon there will be an October hurricane.

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist

Additional Name(s): Soiuz voinstvuiushchikh bezbozhnikov SSSR.

TSentral'nyi sovet -- Associated name

Item/Page/Plate: p. 26

Source: Bezbozhnik

Source Description: 19 v. ill. (part col.), ports.(part col.) 30-35 cm.