Short for agitation or agitprop (political propaganda); a person engaged in agitation for political or social causes.
From Russian agit-, short for agitatsiya (agitation), used in Soviet propaganda. The term entered English during the 20th century alongside Soviet cultural influence.
Soviet activists coined 'agitprop' (agitation + propaganda) as an official art form, with trained agits traveling by train through the countryside performing plays and speeches to convince peasants to support communism—it's one of the few times a government weaponized theater.
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