POWER AND FREEDOM FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE STRUCTURE OF A TOTALITARIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM (ON THE EXAMPLE OF NAZI GERMANY AND STALINIST USSR)

Abstract

The main peculiarities of youth policy of totalitarian states of 1930s are considered in the paper. The establishment of totalitarian regimes in Russia, Germany and some other countries had totally transformed the life of these nations. It was the way to democracy, to contemporary civil society and the social state, full of hardships, violence and bloodshed. There were only two all-nation youth leagues – Leninist Youth League and Hitlerjugend - that turned out to have the most outstanding results in the history. Their comparative research is most interesting and instructive.