Leonard Schapiro Quote

Quote from Leonard Schapiro,

"No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance."

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Leonard Schapiro (more quotes by Leonard Schapiro or books by/about Leonard Schapiro)

(1908-1983) British academic, London School of Economics, Professor of Political Science with Special Reference to Russian Studies

Source:

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 2nd ed (New York Random House, 1971), 477.

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Propaganda, Reason, Uniformity

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By:	Leonard Schapiro (more quotes by Leonard Schapiro or books by/about Leonard Schapiro)
	(1908-1983) British academic, London School of Economics, Professor of Political Science with Special Reference to Russian Studies
Source:	The Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 2nd ed (New York Random House, 1971), 477.
Categories:	Propaganda, Reason, Uniformity
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