To do this, Lenin organized a Communist party that attracted demobilized soldiers and others to become supporters of the Bolshevik ideology, dressed up in uniforms and sent to travel the countryside as agitators to the peasants.
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It had a printing press on board the train to allow posters to be reproduced and thrown out of the windows as it passed through villages. After the October Revolution of 1917, an agitprop train toured the country, with artists and actors performing simple plays and broadcasting propaganda. Agitprop was also used for dissemination of information and knowledge to the people, like new methods of agriculture. Typically Russian agitprop explained the ideology and policies of the Communist Party and attempted to persuade the general public to support and join the party and share its ideals. Its head was a member of the MK secretariat, although they ranked second to the head of the orgraspredotdel. Within the party apparatus, both agitation (work among people who were not Communists) and propaganda (political work among party members) were the responsibility of the agitpropotdel, or APPO. The term originated in Soviet Russia as a shortened name for the Department for Agitation and Propaganda ( отдел агитации и пропаганды, otdel agitatsii i propagandy), which was part of the central and regional committees of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The term originated in Soviet Russia where it referred to popular media, such as literature, plays, pamphlets, films, and other art forms, with an explicitly political message in favor of communism.
Agitpróp, portmanteau of agitatsiya, "agitation" and propaganda, "propaganda") refers to an intentional, vigorous promulgation of ideas. Hasten to join shock brigades of exemplary labor!"Īgitprop ( / ˈ æ dʒ ɪ t p r ɒ p/ from Russian: агитпроп, tr. Agitprop poster by Vladimir Mayakovsky titled: "Want it? Join"