[ noun ] teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically <noun.act>
Indoctrination \In*doc`tri*na"tion\, n. The act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated; instruction in the rudiments and principles of any science or system of belief; information. --Sir T. Browne.
With traditional Chinese social values having also been destroyed by the communists, many Chinese have been put off by the attempt to revive ideological indoctrination after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Some have even turned to religion.
The stick consists of intrusive political controls, including the rationing of food and clothing, and mandatory indoctrination in classes on the country's juche, or self-reliance ideology. There is also an extensive network of informers.
Leading newspapers Sunday carried a stern government call for tighter discipline and more ideological indoctrination among students following a week of political agitation at Beijing University.
The government has acknowledged that after four decades of indoctrination, it has failed to persuade many of the nation's young of the virtues of Communist rule.
Millions of students and workers face long hours of political indoctrination, hearing over and over again that "without the Communist Party there would be no new China.
How can international relations be studied without turning America's public schools into centers for political indoctrination?
Still, he had no idea they weren't communists." As part of his indoctrination, the torturer was himself tortured.
Surveillance files kept on government employees were burned, pictures of Nationalist leaders were taken down, political indoctrination is being reduced in the schools and a nuclear power plant, backed by Nationalists, was stopped.