Soviet Religious Propaganda Art

Artworks from the Soviet era depicting religious themes and propaganda messages, combining satire and traditional motifs in striking illustrations.

Let's vaccinate against smallpox (Poster), Anonymous

Let's vaccinate against smallpox (Poster), Anonymous

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Interior, "Kingdom of Heaven", Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration by Mikhail Cheremnykh, 1920's

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Interior, Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration by Dimitry Moor, 1920's

Wheat Angels #1, Farm Machinery

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Interior, Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration by Dimitry Moor, 1920's

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Interior, Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration by Dimitry Moor, 1920's

Martyrdom of Saint Apollonia, Medical - Dental

Drinking people with Crucified Christ, Mathieu Lauweriks, 1935 print A group of people is drinking for a curtain. Behind the curtain Christ on the cross. On the right a hand extends from the curtain to one of the wine jars. Japanese paper (handmade paper) curtain ~ stage. the crucifixion of Christ: Christ's death on the cross; Golgotha (Matthew 27:45-58; Mark 15:33-45; Luke 23:44-52; John 19:25-38). drinking

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Interior, Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration, 1920's

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Cover, Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration by Dmitry Moor, Issue 12, 1927

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Cover, Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration by Dmitry Moor, Issue 12, 1927

Fame and arithmetics. Two goddesses, personal fame and arithmetics personifications.

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Interior, "Cover", Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration, 1920's

Colored print by Rudolf Pick depicting the Bosnian Christmas exhibition at Hegelgasse 6, created around 1900, showing exhibition interior and cultural objects.

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Interior, "The Former Priest's Idols", Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration by Mikhail Cheremnykh, 1920's

Anti-Religion Propaganda Poster, "Christ is Born", Bezbozhnik u Stanka Magazine, Illustration by Dmitry Moor, Russia, 1920's

Magic poster - The Fak Hongs - Numero D'Illusion - Le Plus Grand Du Monde

The donkey, which wears reliquias, 1890 print Leaf with a large representation from the fable of Jean de la Fontaine, from the donkey that wears relics. A donkey runs through the street with relics, kneeling spectators. At the top right a text block with verse lines. Numbered in the top left: Série 8. - No. 8. Paris paper letterpress printing fables. ass, donkey. relics (and reliquaries)

Image series Conquest of Mexico, Entry into the Conquered Country in August 1521, Liebig painting, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Cover, Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration by Dmitry Moor, Issue 4, 1925

ICHNOWSKI M. The Resurrection of Christ Publishing House Postcard

Statue of Liberty. Poster showing immigrants arriving in New York harbor, with Statue of Liberty, above Hebrew script supporting the sale of War Bonds. color lithograph, 1917

Nicholas Ridley, bishop of London, and Hugh Latimer, bishop of Worcester, burnt by Catholics at Oxford

Cartel del espectáculo religioso-teatral La Passió d'Esparraguera de 1951.

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Interior, Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration by Dimitry Moor, 1920's

The Devil Doll Chertova kukla. Moor, Dmitri Stakhievich, 1883-1946. 1920. Posters. Manuscripts and Archives Division. Soviet Union , History , 1917-1936, Political posters, Russian

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Cover, Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration by Konstantin Urbetis, Issue 19, 1929

French Satirical Illustration showing Pope Pius IX being subservient to France. In 1905 France issued a Law of Separation, which separated church and state, and which the Pope denounced. The effect of the separation was the church's loss of its government funding in France.

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Interior, Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration by Dimitry Moor, 1920's

"Drew their mother to the Temple" -- an illustration to the children's story, Harry and Herodotus, or Tales of an Old Traveller. Showing two boys, Cleobis and Bito, in a yoke, pulling their mother (a priestess of Juno) to the Temple in her chariot, because the oxen have not come back from the fields. Date: 1900

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Interior, Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration by Konstantin Urbetis, 1920's

The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Russian SFSR. The Tsar was forced to abdicate and the old regime was replaced by a provisional government during the first revolution of February 1917 (March in the Gregorian calendar; the older Julian calendar was in use in Russia at the time). In the second revolution, during October, the Provisional Government was removed and replaced with a Bolshevik (Communist) government.

c.1928 Tourist advertising: Brightly colored hula girl and Alii (royalty) B1439

Print titled 'The Feast of Pennants'. Dated 20th Century

Illumination depicting the Story of Saint Jerome from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (The Beautiful Hours) an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript book of hours. Dated 15th Century

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Cover, Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration by Dmitry Moor, Issue 3, 1928

Freemasonry & La Commune. / (15)

Homage To India 1999 Gerry Charm (20th C./American) Collage

Artwork: Prisoners of War Art - Vietnam, camp of detention for U.S. pilots captured in Vietnam - untitled (empty tomb of risen Lord) Artist: Gerald L. Coffee. Country: Unknown

Polish Victims Relief Fund. Most holy Virgin of Czenstochowa help us. Poster showing refugees outside a devastated town, gazing up at a Marian apparition, Our Lady of Czenstochowa. 1915

Anti-Religion Propaganda Poster, Bezbozhnik u Stanka Magazine, Illustration by Mikhail Cheremnykh, Russia, 1920's

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Cover, Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration by Dmitry Moor, Issue 9, 1927

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Cover, Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration by Dmitry Moor, Issue 9, 1927

Magic poster - Handy-Bandy - The Oriental Sorcerer

French illustration showing a catholic priest conducting the Eucharist. 1907

Illustration titled 'Their Only Hope is Rain'. The Illustration depicts Pope Pius X and Cardinal Merry del Val attempting to put out a fire labelled "Revolt Against the Vatican throughout Southern Europe" with bellows labelled "Intolerance" and "Infallibility". Rain clouds labelled "The Diplomacy of Leo" approach from the right, beneath the spirit of Pope Leo XIII. Dated 20th Century

Long live the Stalin's constitution!, Anonymous

Patriotic pro-Turkish card depicting a veiled Turkish woman in flowing see-through white robes, carrying and waving a large Turkish flag 1910s

Nationalists capture the sanctuary of Caradonga; the pro-Nationalist Italian reporter sees this as a triumph of patriotic heroism over barbaric atheism

Judge Magazine: Ah Cleveland Worships his Joss, Judge Magazine

Knights of Pythias, illustration circa 1886

Magic poster - Oregon Indian Medicine Co.

German political poster, 1919: Helmet bearer tears down the Church of Our Lady in Munich. Text: Christian people. Will you allow Spartacus to tear down your churches Answer on election day Bavarian People's Party. Anti-communist

French satirical illustration, showing, religious cohesion and equality between Christianity, Judaism and Islam after the Young Turk Revolution (July 1908) deposed Sultan Abdul Hamid II, of the Ottoman Empire

Adelboden, Anonymous

Picture of the Pioneer for Communism, Russian Judaica

People Who Keep China Working, Chinese Communist Propaganda

Anti-Religion Propaganda Poster, "Mystery of Christ", Bezbozhnik u Stanka Magazine, Illustration by Dmitry Moor, Russia, 1920's

'Goddess of liberty,' honoring American Boy Scouts , Monuments & memorials, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Collection of Ottoman Flags. 1906

Anticommunist propaganda promoted by the Christian Democracy, 1948

Anti-Religion Propaganda Poster, Bezbozhnik u Stanka Magazine, Illustration by D. Melnikov (left), Alexey Radakov (right), Russia, 1920's

Russian revolution celebrated on a pennant (flag) circa 1918

Anti-Religion Propaganda Poster, "Entrance to Jerusalem", Bezbozhnik u Stanka Magazine, Illustration by Dmitry Moor, Russia, 1920's

The Indian on the Trail at Mohawk Park, Charlemont, Mass. , Monuments & memorials, Parks, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

HEAVY METAL PINS SATAN WORSHIPS- 1998- VINILO/COLLAGE. Author: MANUEL OCAMPO. Location: GALERIA SOLEDAD LORENZO. MADRID. SPAIN.

World War I, Poster showing two Red Cross nurses, one cradling in her arms a child on a litter, between the flags of Japan and the United States, 'Emblems of liberty and humanity The Red Cross, mother of all nations', poster circa 1914-1918.

Trade Union Movement, Republican, anti-church propaganda poster during the Spanish Civil War. 1937. By Raga (1911-1985)

World War One was to have a devastating impact on Russia. When World War One started in August 1914, Russia responded by patriotically rallying around Nicholas II. Military disasters at the Masurian Lakes and Tannenburg greatly weakened the Russian Army in the initial phases of the war. The growing influence of Gregory Rasputin over the Romanovs did a great deal to damage the royal family and by the end of the spring of 1917, the Romanovs, who had ruled Russia for just over 300 years, were no longer in charge of a Russia that had been taken over by Kerensky and the Provisional Government. By the end of 1917, the Bolsheviks led by Lenin had taken power in the major cities of Russia and introduced communist rule in those areas it controlled. The transition in Russia over the space of four years was remarkable - the fall of an autocracy and the establishment of the worlds first communist government.

Hold Tight, Chinese Communist Propaganda

Educate the Youth, Chinese Communist Propaganda

Swiss postcard with symbols of Freemasonry. From Berne, 1910

Harper's magazine, Christmas 1898 , Biblical events, Bowing, Periodicals, Magi, Star of Bethlehem

Old Jew with goat by unknown painter, Russia, Moscow, State Tretyakow Gallery, 29,8x26

Religion is poison, protects children against by Terpsikhorov, Nikolai Borisovich (1890-1960)/ Russian State Library, Moscow/ 1930/ Russia/ Colour lithograph/ Soviet political agitation art/ 72x54/ History,Poster and Graphic design

Drum the Word & Rally, Chinese Communist Propaganda

The Indian on the Trail at Mohawk Park, Charlemont, Mass. , Monuments & memorials, Parks, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Magic poster - The Great Rameses The Eastern Mystic

Youth Fight Too, Chinese Communist Propaganda

Swiss postcard with symbols of Freemasonry. From Neuchtel, the French-speaking capital of the Swiss canton Neuchtel, 1910

Our reply to the Pope. Osoaviakhim is the support of peaceful labour and defence by Gershanik, Roman Vasilyevich (1898-1984)/ Russian State Library, Moscow/ Russia/ Colour lithograph/ Soviet political agitation art/ 71x95/ Poster and Graphic design

Anti-Religion Propaganda Poster, Bezbozhnik u Stanka Magazine, Illustration by Dmitry Moor, Russia, 1920's

Color print by Hugo Grimm depicting the Passion Games in Brixlegg, Tyrol, created in 1913. The image shows participants and stages of the religious performance.

Front cover of The Sphere, Memorial Number of the Scott Antarctic Expedition showing a sombre scene of a group of men praying by a cairn topped with a cross in memory of Captain Scott, who died, along with four others on his return trip from the South Pole in March 1912. Date: 1913

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). 'Cmo ha sembrado la iglesia su religin en Espa-a' (How the church has sown its religion in Spain). Poster from the UGT desigend by Raga.

Peopl make their way up a snow-covered to hill for a Christmas service at a Hungarian Church Date: 1924

Fourth Wife - Russian Yiddish Film, Russian Judaica

events First World War WWI propaganda ""Opfertag 1917"" (Day of sacrifice 1917) Bavarian Red Cross Committee poster based on draft by Walter Ditz (1888 - 1925) Germany 1917,

Stylised Christmas tree flanked by two stylish children. Date: 1921

Jewish Folks Party - Vote for Ticket #4, Russian Judaica

Personified map, circa 1880, Russia, depicted with a pope and a bear, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from 19th century original.

Poster promoting Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, showing an Amish couple.

Cartel de Company y Ruíz, 'Obra de los Homenajes a la Vejez. Caja de Pensiones para la Vejez y de Ahorros de Catalunya y Baleares', siglo XX. Colección privada.

Color poster by Edouard Duyck depicting the City of Mons with feasts offered by horse hunters, created in 1896, showing figures, horses, and festival scene.

This is the enemy , Christianity, Nazis, Bibles, Propaganda, World War, 1939-1945

To Wish You a Happy Christmas Postcard. To Wish You a Happy Christmas Postcard

Be worthy of praise! by Govorkov, Viktor Iwanovich (1906-1974)/ Russian State Library, Moscow/ 1954/ Russia/ Colour lithograph/ Soviet political agitation art/ Poster and Graphic design

An English Girl and a Japanese Girl stand in front of their national flags holding hands and lifting up flowers, symbolising the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, signed in London at what is now the Lansdowne Club, on January 30th, 1902 by Lord Lansdowne (British foreign secretary) and Hayashi Tadasu (Japanese minister in London). A diplomatic milestone, the alliance was renewed and extended in scope twice, in 1905 and 1911, before its demise in 1921. It was officially terminated in 1923. Date: 1902

Weihnachten im Feld! 1914. Spendet Liebesgaben für unsere Krieger! by Adolf Münzer, 1870-1953, German graphic artist. World war One German propaganda poster showing a Christmas tree decorated with candles in front of a red cross

A question stamp depicting an angel from the city and the text: Save children!; around 1914 1920 (1914-00-00-1920-00-00);

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