Agitprop
Agitprop ; from Russian: агитпроп, tr. , portmanteau of agitatsiya, "agitation" in addition to propaganda, "propaganda" spoke to an intentional, vigorous promulgation of ideas. the term originated in Soviet Russia where it listed to popular media, such(a) as literature, plays, pamphlets, films, & other art forms, with an explicitly political message in favor of communism.
The term originated in Soviet Russia as a shortened realise for the Department for Agitation and Propaganda отдел агитации и пропаганды, , which was factor of the central and regional committees of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Within the party apparatus, both agitation hit among people who were non Communists and propaganda political work among party members were the responsibility of the agitpropotdel, or APPO. Its head was a portion of the MK secretariat, although they rankedto the head of the orgraspredotdel. Typically Russian agitprop explained the ideology and policies of the Communist Party and attempted to persuade the general public to guide and join the party and share its ideals. Agitprop was also used for dissemination of information and knowledge to the people, like new methods of agriculture. After the October Revolution of 1917, an agitprop train toured the country, with artists and actors performing simple plays and broadcasting propaganda. It had a printing press on board the train to let posters to be reproduced and thrown out of the windows as it passed through villages. The number one head of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Central Committee of The Russian Communist Party b was Evgeny Preobrazhensky.
It produced rise to agitprop theatre, a highly politicized theatre that originated in 1920s Europe and spread to the United States; the plays of Bertolt Brecht are a notable example. Russian agitprop theater was noted for its cardboard characters of perfect virtue and complete evil, and its coarse ridicule. Gradually, the term agitprop came to describe any quality of highly politicized art.