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Title Statement | My life in propaganda: language and totalitarian regimes / Magda Stroińska PhD. |
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Author | Stroinska, Magda |
Publication | Calgary, AB: Durvile & UpRoute Books,2023. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | xviii, 270 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781990735332 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr07212254 |
Contents | My life in propaganda --The confusion of language --The ideal human being or the roots of totalitarianism --The common good --The façade of newspeak --Radio Free Europe --Lessons from children's literature --Pouring water --People and things --Post-communism: the blurring of definitions --Empty promises and the 'abused society syndrome' --Polish hejt --Post script: the devil is in the detail. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary | My Life in Propaganda is Magda Stroińska's personal account of growing up with communist propaganda in Eastern Europe. She looks at the influence of her family history that contradicted what she was taught at school, the cognitive and emotional effects of compulsory school readings, socialist realist art and film, Radio Free Europe and Voice of America and their role in shaping her generation's collective view of the world. She also observes post-communist societies through the lens of societal trauma and explains how to understand the sudden fall into the populist trap. This demonstrates that democracy can never be taken for granted. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Belief and doubt--Social aspects |
Communism--History--20th century--Poland | |
Disinformation | |
Mass media and propaganda | |
Misinformation | |
By Name | Stroinska, Magda |
By Location | Poland--History--1945-1980 |
By Genre | Biographies |
Personal narratives |