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Nikolai Fyodorovich Pogodin (Никола́й Фёдорович Пого́дин) (pseudonym of N. F. Stukalov) (16 November 1900 - 19 September 1962) was a Soviet playwright.

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Biography
Pogodin was born Nikolai Stukalov in modern day Donetsk Oblast on 16 November [ O.S. 3 November] 1900. Both parents were peasants. His educational career lasted through the elementary level. Between 14 and 20, Pogodin worked a variety of low-level jobs: selling newspapers, distributing supplies for typewriters and dental equipment, working in a machine shop, bookbinding and carpentry. During the Russian Civil War he served as a volunteer with the Red Army. In 1920 he worked as a reporter for the Rostov-on-Don newspaper Trudovaya zhizn, and was a traveling correspondent for Pravda from 1922 to 1932. From 1925 he lived in Moscow.

In 1929, Pogodin's first play, Tempo (Temp, 1929) was published after a visit to the Stalingrad Tractor Plant, where the play was later set. The play's major theme of young Communists outdoing their American counterparts was a common theme of Soviet Realism. His later works, Poema o topore (A Poem about an Ax, 1930) and Moi Drug (My Friend, 1930) also touched on themes of soviet industrialism and ingenuity. His plays frequently mixed "factual reports" with dramatization.

His most popular play was Chelovek s ruzhyom (Man with a gun, 1937), about Shadrin, a soldier who comes to Petrograd in October 1917 and gets involved in the Revolution; the climax of the play is his meeting with Lenin. The second play in his Lenin trilogy, Kremlyovskie kuranty (The chimes of the Kremlin, 1940), was set in 1920 and featured a scene in which Lenin talks with an old Jewish watchmaker engaged in repairing the Kremlin chimes so they can play the Internationale; the third, Tretya pateticheskaya (The third: Pathetic, 1958) used the news of Lenin's death as a tragic leitmotif. Kogda lomaiutsya kop'ya (When the spears break, 1953) was a comedy; Sonet Petrarki (Petrarch's sonnet, 1956) "takes the position that there are certain individual matters--personal feelings and affairs of the heart--which are none of the collective's or the Party's business."

From 1951 to 1960 Pogodin was the chief editor of the theatrical journal Teatr. He won the Order of Lenin twice and the Stalin Prize twice, and became an Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1949.

Pogodin died on September 1962 at the age of 61.

Article Evaluation
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 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
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 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * Yes, WikiProject Biography and WikiProject Russia. It's been rated Stub-Class and Low-Importance.
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?
 * Our class has been mostly about the aftermath of the Revolution, whereas this article is in the Revolution and has little room for bias or discussion. But Wikipedia did class it as low-importance and we haven't talked about him at all, so I guess there's not that much of a difference."The most popular in this series of plays was Aristocrats (1934), a half-serious, half-comical play about the building, by forced labor, of a canal between the White and Baltic Seas. Thieves, bandits, and other convicts, the aristocrats of crime, at first do not want to work but gradually become involved in collective action and are transformed and morally regenerated." This reflected a popular propaganda theme of reforming criminals and class enemies through labor.