agitprop

Definitions


[ˈadʒɪtprɒp], (Noun)

Definitions:
- political (originally communist) propaganda, especially in art or literature
(e.g: a typeface which made it resemble student agitprop of the Eighties)


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Origin:
1920s (originally the name of a department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union responsible for political propaganda): Russian, blend of agitacija ‘agitation’ and propaganda ‘propaganda’




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