"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." | by: | 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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