Purposes
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia identifies the following functions of the Communist propaganda:
- The link of the Communist party with the worker class and other working people
- Incorporation of the Scientific Socialism into the worker movements and revolutionary activities of the masses
- Unification and organization of national divisions of the workers', communist, and democratic movements
- Coordination of the activities of the above mentioned movements, exchange of information and experience
- Expression of the public opinion of the worker class, working people, their needs and interests
- Spread opposition to the bourgeois and revisionist propaganda
- Dissemination of propaganda about the socialist society (i.e., the one of a communist state).
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