Word: agitprop
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Addressing a meeting, an Agitprop worker said: "Comrades, this Five-Year Plan will bring to each of you a new house. The next Five-Year Plan will bring to each of you a new car. And the next Five-Year Plan after that will bring to each of you a new airplane...
...need for an orthodox but readable statement of Marxism in English was occasioning grave concern to the Agitprop (the Party's propaganda bureau) when Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey appeared, like a Red Moses, to make a path for the intellectual children of Israel through the Red Sea. His masterwork, The Coming Struggle for Power, made him the most important popularizer of Marxism outside Russia...
Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, pudgy, cagey head of the Russian Communist Party's Agitprop (Agitation & Propaganda) Committee, is generally regarded as the heir-apparent to Dictator Stalin's job. He became next in line when a bullet removed the original runner-up, Stalin's "Dear Friend" Sergei Mironovich Kirov. The idea that Heir-Apparent Zhdanov can have a personal opinion about anything not shared by the Kremlin would make even dour Comrade Stalin laugh...
...getting married. Nevertheless, all concerned in the dramatization do manage to supply, if not an exciting, at least a quiet, chuckly evening in the theatre. Let Freedom Ring (adapted by Albert Bein; Bein & Goldsmith, producers) is another blow at industrial Bondage & the Bosses. Like most radical literature, "agitprop" drama seems curiously limited not only as to symbolism but as to narrative. The humble workers take it on the chin for a couple of acts, then stage a strike during which the hero is killed. The finale still finds the strike unsettled, but homegoing playgoers are given the impression that...
...drama observers, who believe that to be healthy the Theatre should be sensitive to the times, predicted that Life's Too Short was the beginning of a long series of plays alert to problems of social justice but more fitted for popular consumption than last season's rash of "agitprop" (TIME, June...