All 6 Uses of
propaganda
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- The fact was he had begun instinctively to guess that Lebeziatnikov was not merely a commonplace simpleton, but, perhaps, a liar, too, and that he had no connections of any consequence even in his own circle, but had simply picked things up third-hand; and that very likely he did not even know much about his own work of propaganda, for he was in too great a muddle.†
Chpt 5.1propaganda = one-sided information that is purposefully spread to influence opinions
- I might indirectly assist the cause of enlightenment and propaganda.†
Chpt 5.1 *
- It's a duty of every man to work for enlightenment and propaganda and the more harshly, perhaps, the better.†
Chpt 5.1
- Think what the passion for propaganda will bring some girls to!†
Chpt 6.4
- I fell to jeering in the coarsest way at all such propaganda and efforts to convert me; Parasha came on to the scene again, and not she alone; in fact there was a tremendous to-do.†
Chpt 6.4
- You seem to have forgotten how you softened to me in the heat of propaganda.†
Chpt 6.5
Definition:
one-sided information that is purposefully spread to influence opinions -- often misleading information of a political nature