Suchergebnisse

1. The birth of the Russian youth movement -- 2. Revolution as revelation : the first Red Dawn -- 3. Birth in the civil war : the struggle for an identity -- 4. The Komsomol and the policy of class -- 5. Revolutionizing mind and soul -- 6. A living organisation -- 7. The Komsomol as an object of class war -- 8. The Komsomol as an agent of class war : the second Red Dawn -- 9. Lost identity : a static organization emerges.

The study of Soviet youth has long lagged behind the comprehensive research conducted on Western European youth culture. In an era that saw the emergence of youth movements of all sorts across Europe, the Soviet Komsomol was the first state-sponsored youth organization, in the first communist country. Born out of an autonomous youth movement that emerged in 1917, the Komsomol eventually became the last link in a chain of Soviet socializing agencies which organized the young. Based on extensive archival research and building upon recent research on Soviet youth, this book broadens our unders.