“Color poster from the Soviet Union, 1930”

“Color poster from the Soviet Union, 1930”

Soviet anti-American and anti-religious propaganda piece, originally included in a pro-atheist Soviet Communist magazine, which uses a depiction of lynching (set against icons of American freedom) to question that nation's morals.

“Color poster from the Soviet Union, 1930,” in the Jessie Daniel Ames Papers, 1866-1972 #3686, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Published in Bezbozhnik u Stanka (or The Godless at the Workbench) by the League of Militant Atheists in Moscow, (then) the Soviet Union. Individual artist unidentified in collection details but determined by current curator to be Nikolai Nikolaevich Kogout (1891–1959).

From archival material housed in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC's Wilson Library. Received from Jessie Daniel Ames, founder of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, as part of a personal archive of lynching-related media clippings.

The League of Militant Atheists, a Moscow-based organization of intelligentsia and workers that advanced the ideological views of the Soviet Communist Party.

Document printed and circulated in 1930; materials received by the Southern Historical Collection in 1964 and 1993.

Jessie Daniel Ames (1883-1972), anti-lynching activist active in the Southern U.S., founder of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, and collector of lynching-related documents.

As per the Southern Historical Collection: "Copyright is retained by the authors of items. . . or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law."

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Full-color offset photomechanical print as page of magazine, scanned and rendered as JPG file.

Russian-language publication with subsequent handwritten English transcriptions and notes.

Printed propaganda poster from Soviet Communist Party-affiliated magazine

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Soviet perspective on American and Christian values in light of the era's epidemic of mob lynchings of Black citizens.

Full-color offset photomechanical print as page of magazine

36.9 x 26.7 cm.