Definition of "agitprop" in English

noun

1. (uncountable, also attributively) Political propaganda disseminated through art, drama, literature, etc., especially communist propaganda; (specifically, communism, historical) such propaganda formerly disseminated by the Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

   • Like most pieces of agitprop, the Lucas and Sargent paper vastly overstated the deficiencies of the old order.

2. (countable) An instance of such propaganda.

3. (countable) An organization or person engaged in disseminating such propaganda.

verb

1. (ambitransitive, politics) To disseminate (something as) political propaganda, especially communist propaganda, through art, drama, literature, etc.