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Agit-prop, agit-prop|ˈædʒɪtˌprɒp, ˈæg-|
[f. Russ. agitpróp, f. agit(átsiya agitation + prop(agánda propaganda.]
A department of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party responsible, with its local branches, for ‘agitation and propaganda’ on behalf of Communism; its activities. Also, a person engaged in agitprop. Also transf.
1934N. & Q. CLXVI. 73/1 The A[g]itprop, the central organ for propaganda and agitation, has sent word round to writers, newspapers and publishers, that there is to be an organisation for mass-laughter. 1935Time 17 June 38/1 Far more serious, far more earnest is the Depression-born movement of workers' theatres which are currently putting on ‘agit-prop’ (agitational propaganda) plays in 300 U.S. cities. 1936Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Feb. 146/3 Primitive ‘agitprop’ and mass-chant plays. 1949‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-Four 307 The tendency to use abbreviations of this kind was most marked in totalitarian countries and totalitarian organizations. Examples were such words as Nazi, Gestapo, Comintern, Inprecorr, Agitprop. 1950A. Koestler in God that Failed 51 The job of Agit.-Prop. fell to me soon after I had joined the cell. 1952G. A. Duncan in R. S. Sayers Banking in Brit. Commonw. viii. 314 They [sc. the banks] have made no effort to counter the flood of often malicious..but sometimes pointed agitprop. 1952Economist 1 Mar. 508/2 Any businessman who goes to Moscow in the belief that he will be able to strike an effective blow for anything he believes in and the Communists do not is simply inviting the ‘Agitprop’ experts to make a monkey of him. 1959Spectator 6 Nov. 629/2 The whole tone [of the play] is ten times heavier and cornier than any of the agitprop from the old Unity Theatre. |