agitpropn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈadʒɪtprɒp/, U.S.

/ˈædʒətˈˌprɑp/

Forms: 1900s– agit-prop, 1900s– agit.-prop. (with point), 1900s– agitprop, 1900s– agit prop. Also with capital initial(s).

Origin: A borrowing from Russian. Etymon: Russian agitprop.

Etymology: < Russian agitprop (1920 in senses ‘department responsible for political propaganda’ (frequently with capital initial), ‘activities of this department’) < agit- (in agitacija political agitation, campaigning: see agitation n.; compare agitation n. 3b) + prop- (in propaganda propaganda n.).

A. n.

1. Usually with capital initial. A department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, or a local department, responsible for ‘agitation and propaganda’ on behalf of Communism; the activities of this department. Also: a person engaged in agitprop. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > Communist Party > party machine of > specific part of

agitprop1925

1925 Times 25 Apr. 15/4 Both the responsible members and the staff of these courses will be under the supervision of the ‘Agitprop’, or Agitation-Propaganda Committee of the Comintern.

1934 Notes & Queries 166 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.

1950 A. Koestler in R. Crossman God that Failed 51 The job of Agit.-Prop. fell to me soon after I had joined the cell.

1952 G. 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.

1985 M. H. Heim & A. W. Bouis tr. V. Aksyonov In Search of Melancholy Baby (1989) i. 7 The role of anti-American propaganda..is managed by the anything but friendly people down at Agitprop.

2004 R. J. Kirin in M. Cornis-Pope & J. Neubauer Hist. Literary Cultures East-Central Europe I. i. 130 The fervent supporters of the Cominform included leading figures of the Communist Agitprop office that were not prepared to break with Stalin's concept of state-sponsored docile artists.

2. Writing (esp. drama and lyrics) used as a vehicle for political propaganda; (occasionally) an instance of this.

ΚΠ

1959 Spectator 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.

1976 Canad. Theatre Rev. Winter 171 Other short agit-props and mass recitations followed, characterized by a subject matter that focussed on social inequalities.

1987 Daily Tel. 6 Aug. 10/7 Rapping is chanting in verse to a heavy beat with more than a touch of agit-prop.

1990 N.Y. Mag. 25 June 65/1 The cut could have easily gone down as cranky liberal agitprop if there weren't an urgency to the driving guitar lines and straight-ahead vocal style.

1992 Face Apr. 76/2 His particular skill..is to turn his horror at Florida's eco-suicide into black comedy rather than agitprop.

2010 H. Jacobson Finkler Question x. 249 The play..was only on for a week, a piece of agitprop that people were writing angry or enthusiastic letters to the paper about.

3. More generally: political propaganda of any kind.

ΚΠ

1967 H. Cruse Crisis Negro Intellectual iii. 216 There is nothing wrong with..political agitprop in its place.

1968 C. J. Levy Voluntary Servitude iii.61 The classroom is used as a forum for racial agitprop.

1991 Economist 21 Dec. 85/3 Some of its work is feverish right-wing agitprop—three-page briefs written by crew-cutted interns from Oklahoma on why the contras should be given nuclear weapons.

1998 P. Gourevitch We wish to inform You xvii. 257 The closest modern Rwanda came to a cultural flowering was in the fascist agitprop of Hutu Power newspapers and radio.

2000 Daily Tel. 13 June 9/5 There was a huge social revolution going on and a great deal of agitprop. We hated the ruling classes and imperialism.

B. adj. (attributive).

Of, relating to, or concerned with agitprop. Frequently in sense A. 2, as agitprop drama, agitprop lyric, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [adjective] > propagandizing > relating to propaganda or propagandists

propagandistic1848

propagandic1854

agitprop1932

1932 Internat. Lit. No. 3 157/2 The song finally came under the ban of social democratic police who took the occasion to forbid the entire repertoire of the German Agitprop groups.

1935 Time 18 Nov. 40/3 Like most radical literature, ‘agitprop’ drama seems curiously limited not only as to symbolism but as to narrative.

1952 Economist 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.

1968 D. Livesay Documentaries 15 I was busy, after work, writing ‘agit-prop’ plays and poems for performance at trade union and political meetings.

1990 V. Ripp Pizza in Pushkin Square i. 40 I endured an evening of agit-prop anti-Americanism of a kind I thought had gone out with the Cold War.

2006 The Word July 102/4 Out-and-out agit prop lyrics about the politics of food.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	agitprop
释义	agitpropn.adj. Brit. /ˈadʒɪtprɒp/, U.S. /ˈædʒətˈˌprɑp/ Forms: 1900s– agit-prop, 1900s– agit.-prop. (with point), 1900s– agitprop, 1900s– agit prop. Also with capital initial(s). Origin: A borrowing from Russian. Etymon: Russian agitprop. Etymology: < Russian agitprop (1920 in senses ‘department responsible for political propaganda’ (frequently with capital initial), ‘activities of this department’) < agit- (in agitacija political agitation, campaigning: see agitation n.; compare agitation n. 3b) + prop- (in propaganda propaganda n.). A. n. 1. Usually with capital initial. A department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, or a local department, responsible for ‘agitation and propaganda’ on behalf of Communism; the activities of this department. Also: a person engaged in agitprop. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > Communist Party > party machine of > specific part of agitprop1925 1925 Times 25 Apr. 15/4 Both the responsible members and the staff of these courses will be under the supervision of the ‘Agitprop’, or Agitation-Propaganda Committee of the Comintern. 1934 Notes & Queries 166 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. 1950 A. Koestler in R. Crossman God that Failed 51 The job of Agit.-Prop. fell to me soon after I had joined the cell. 1952 G. 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. 1985 M. H. Heim & A. W. Bouis tr. V. Aksyonov In Search of Melancholy Baby (1989) i. 7 The role of anti-American propaganda..is managed by the anything but friendly people down at Agitprop. 2004 R. J. Kirin in M. Cornis-Pope & J. Neubauer Hist. Literary Cultures East-Central Europe I. i. 130 The fervent supporters of the Cominform included leading figures of the Communist Agitprop office that were not prepared to break with Stalin's concept of state-sponsored docile artists. 2. Writing (esp. drama and lyrics) used as a vehicle for political propaganda; (occasionally) an instance of this. ΚΠ 1959 Spectator 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. 1976 Canad. Theatre Rev. Winter 171 Other short agit-props and mass recitations followed, characterized by a subject matter that focussed on social inequalities. 1987 Daily Tel. 6 Aug. 10/7 Rapping is chanting in verse to a heavy beat with more than a touch of agit-prop. 1990 N.Y. Mag. 25 June 65/1 The cut could have easily gone down as cranky liberal agitprop if there weren't an urgency to the driving guitar lines and straight-ahead vocal style. 1992 Face Apr. 76/2 His particular skill..is to turn his horror at Florida's eco-suicide into black comedy rather than agitprop. 2010 H. Jacobson Finkler Question x. 249 The play..was only on for a week, a piece of agitprop that people were writing angry or enthusiastic letters to the paper about. 3. More generally: political propaganda of any kind. ΚΠ 1967 H. Cruse Crisis Negro Intellectual iii. 216 There is nothing wrong with..political agitprop in its place. 1968 C. J. Levy Voluntary Servitude iii.61 The classroom is used as a forum for racial agitprop. 1991 Economist 21 Dec. 85/3 Some of its work is feverish right-wing agitprop—three-page briefs written by crew-cutted interns from Oklahoma on why the contras should be given nuclear weapons. 1998 P. Gourevitch We wish to inform You xvii. 257 The closest modern Rwanda came to a cultural flowering was in the fascist agitprop of Hutu Power newspapers and radio. 2000 Daily Tel. 13 June 9/5 There was a huge social revolution going on and a great deal of agitprop. We hated the ruling classes and imperialism. B. adj. (attributive). Of, relating to, or concerned with agitprop. Frequently in sense A. 2, as agitprop drama, agitprop lyric, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [adjective] > propagandizing > relating to propaganda or propagandists propagandistic1848 propagandic1854 agitprop1932 1932 Internat. Lit. No. 3 157/2 The song finally came under the ban of social democratic police who took the occasion to forbid the entire repertoire of the German Agitprop groups. 1935 Time 18 Nov. 40/3 Like most radical literature, ‘agitprop’ drama seems curiously limited not only as to symbolism but as to narrative. 1952 Economist 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. 1968 D. Livesay Documentaries 15 I was busy, after work, writing ‘agit-prop’ plays and poems for performance at trade union and political meetings. 1990 V. Ripp Pizza in Pushkin Square i. 40 I endured an evening of agit-prop anti-Americanism of a kind I thought had gone out with the Cold War. 2006 The Word July 102/4 Out-and-out agit prop lyrics about the politics of food. 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