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/ˈajitˌpräp/,
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Political (originally communist) propaganda, esp. in art or literature,
  1. Political (originally communist) propaganda, esp. in art or literature
    • - agitprop painters
  1. political propaganda (especially communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema
  2. Agitprop (from Russian агитпроп) is a portmanteau of agitation and propaganda. The term originated in Bolshevist Russia (the future Soviet Union), where the term was a shortened form of отдел агитации и пропаганды (otdel agitatsii i propagandy), i.e. ...
  3. Agitation and Propaganda Department, established by the Central Committee of the party in 1920. Absorbed by the Ideological Department in 1988. The term agitprop means the use of mass media to mobilize the public to accomplish the regime's demands.
  4. [n. AH-jut-prop] A political message, particularly one that is declared in drama, literature, music or other of the arts, is agitprop. The creator may intend the agitprop to educate and inform, but the audience may feel an attempt is being made to indoctrinate them. ...
  5. from “agitation” and “propaganda,” art that intends to motivate its viewers to political awareness and/or action.
  6. A word derived from the combination of “agitation” and “propaganda,” agitprop is a form of theater developed in Soviet Russia and which flourished in Europe and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. ...
  7. short for "agitation-propaganda," a form of drama that incites the emotions ("agitation") and then teaches social and political lessons to encourage the audience to engage in a particular political action. Clifford Odets's play Waiting for Lefty and the actos of Luis Valdez are agitprop.
  8. Communist term meaning revolutionary agitation and Propaganda.