Word: agitprop
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...career in his country's politics. A lifelong Communist, he was appointed to head the party's Culture and Propaganda Committee in Bohemia only a year after the 1948 Communist coup d'état toppled Prague's last democratic government. Although he served as an agitprop official throughout the Stalinist terror, he later became an active supporter within the party of its leading liberal, Alexander Dubček. It was during Dubček's brief tenure as party chief that Kaplan began his career as sort of closet archivist of the previous regimes...
...That conflict is recounted with harrowing accuracy in Shoulder to Shoulder (PBS Masterpiece Theatre, Sunday, 9 p.m. E.S.T.), a six-part series that began this week. If there is a television aesthetic, the BBC comes close to fulfilling it in Shoulder, a show that could have easily degenerated into agitprop; instead it is made a continually probing revelation of period and character. Led by a beautiful, red-haired widow, Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia, the suffragettes endured ridicule, torture and repeated jailings; several of them were killed. The angriest went underground, accelerating their demands with bombings...
...willow-pattern tranquillity overthrown, Confucius and Mencius consigned to the paper shredder, and the arts of the ancestral dynasties-Chou and Han, T'ang and Sung, Ming and Chi'ing-abandoned as relics of decadent feudalism, replaced by the cast-concrete colossus of Mao or the agitprop poster of beaming, eupeptic tractor drivers exceeding their norm in Szechwan province...
...ever with Western correspondents was undoubtedly caused by his fear of a Soviet propaganda campaign against him, which has grown stronger in recent months. The most ominous charge made is that he collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. According to Solzhenitsyn, this slander has been repeated by agitprop lecturers at closed meetings in schools, government offices, factories and military units throughout Russia. "Behind closed doors you can make a gullible people believe any lie," said Solzhenitsyn, a former artillery captain who was decorated three times for bravery. "They say, 'Solzhenitsyn gave himself up to the Germans...
...university, the factories produce equipment ranging from quartz-tungsten lamps to logic circuits for third-generation computers. The university also plans a petrochemical plant. "The purpose of these factories is to serve as a base for scientific experiments," explains Tang Chin-wen, 39, the textile-mill technician whose ardent agitprop work won him the leadership of the university. "It is to change the situation that prevailed before the Cultural Revolution, when practical knowledge was divorced from theoretical knowledge...