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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Political propaganda, especially favoring communism and disseminated through literature, drama, art, or music: "It also is a conspiracy movie, agitprop against today's targets, big government and big business” ( George F. Will).

Wiktionary

  1. n. political propaganda disseminated through art, literature, drama, etc, especially Communist propaganda
  2. n. An organization or person engaged in disseminating such propaganda.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. agitation and propaganda; -- used especially for such activities carried out on behalf of communist activists.
  2. n. a person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government; one disseminating agitprop{1}. Also called agitpropist.

WordNet 3.0

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

Etymologies

  1. Russian, short for otdel agitatsii i propagandy, incitement and propaganda section (of the central and local committees of the Russian Communist party); name changed in 1934.

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