Meaning

3 senses
  1. (also, attributive, uncountable)Political propaganda disseminated through art, drama, literature, etc., especially communist propaganda; (specifically, communism, historical) such propaganda formerly disseminated by the Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

    Agitprop

    агитпро́пagitpróp

    агітпро́пahitpróp

    political propaganda (especially communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema

  2. (countable)An instance of such propaganda.

  3. (countable)An organization or person engaged in disseminating such propaganda.

Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
political propaganda disseminated through art, etc.:
Русский
By meaning 1
political propaganda disseminated through art, etc.:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
political propaganda disseminated through art, etc.:

Origin

The noun is borrowed from Russian агитпро́п (agitpróp, “agitprop”), Агитпро́п (Agitpróp, “

The noun is borrowed from Russian агитпро́п (agitpróp, “agitprop”), Агитпро́п (Agitpróp, “Agitprop (Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Soviet Union)”), short for отде́л агитации и пропаганды (otdél agitacii i propagandy, “Department for Agitation and Propaganda”); analysable as a blend of agitation + propaganda.

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Forms

plural: agitprops

Word family

2 related words

See also

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