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In the 1960s the Komsomol began to give particular attention to its international activity, which was not only limited to participation, but also involved the organization of many different events for foreign youth and students - international friendship camps, forums, trips of foreign delegations. The creation of the Committee of Youth Organizations of the USSR (KMO USSR) and the Sputnik International Youth Tourism Bureau (BMMT) contributed to the intensification of the tourist exchange between Soviet and foreign youth. Both organizations were subordinate to the Central Committee of the Komsomol and received funding from the Komsomol budget. In 1962, additional funds started being allocated for international activities, as evidenced by a new item of expenditure that appeared in the budget of the Komsomol. Most of this money was spent by the Central Committee, with excessive expenditure on the reception of foreign delegations and gifts, which was repeatedly noted by audit checks. Twelve to thirty committees with international youth camps (out of 86 regional Komsomol committees) received money under the framework of this funding item. During the period under study, the Komsomol actively helped with the payment of organizational fees to the funds of the World Festivals of Youth and Students, and then began to provide direct material assistance to the youth organizations in Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa, which regularly applied for it. It is important to note that the annual increase of spending on international activities occurred in the context of the termination of state funding for the Komsomol, which in 1959 became fully financially self-sufficient. Based on a wide range of archival documents introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, the article presents an analysis of the financial activities of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, its sources of funding and directions for spending the funds allocated for international activities. The relevance of the study is determined by the lack of serious scholarly investigation of this problem and the need to study the financial support of international activities in order to give a comprehensive assessment of its impact and efficiency.

Legacies of the Komsomol er en artikkelbasert avhandling om hvordan to nasjonale avdelinger av den all-sovjetiske ungdomsunionen Komsomol endret seg i årene før og etter Sovjetunionens oppløsning. Den diskuterer også hvordan og hvorfor dens arvtakerorganisasjoner senere ble integrerte deler av Putins og Lukashenkos autoritære regimer, og hva som er ungdommens motivasjon for å delta i dem.
Legacies of the Komsomol is an article-based PhD on how two national chapters of the all-Soviet communist youth league Komsomol transformed during the years before and after the Soviet collapse. It also discusses how Komsomol's offspring organizations became integrated parts of the political regimes of Putin and Lukashenko, and the youth's motivation for participating in them.

With this ideological rationalization, Naval Commissar Trotsky dismissed objections of doubters who feared that Komsomol "patronage" activities in the Red Navy would lead to the undesirable spread of militaristic attitudes. During the Civil War era there were still Bolsheviks who did not realize the possible implications of Lenin's "armed proletariat," and hoped there would soon be no need for a militarized society.

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.

AbstractThis article examines the evolution of official Soviet remembrance of the Second World War in the decades that followed 1945. Focusing on elite discourse and Komsomol military-patriotic curricula associated with the state cult of the war, the article argues that Soviet remembrance promoted the war as a fundamentally supranational experience and the basis for a transcendent, pan-Soviet imagined community. The article questions an influential scholarly position that emphasizes the party leadership's reliance on pre-socialist, russocentric imagery for popular mobilization. In fact, official remembrance practices after Stalin were most striking in the extent to which they consistently downplayed Russian exceptionalism for the sake of the paramount Soviet whole. The article proposes that this tendency should be viewed as part of a larger, internally contested effort to move away from a distinct ethnic hierarchy, and toward a picture of non-ethnic, pan-Soviet uniformity.

In general the Lithuanian Komsomol Press publications are of great importance in the history of publication. After the defeat of the revoliution the so called white terror made the press be transfered to a foreign country. A great number of press leaders moved abroad as well.The Lithuanian Komsomol Press of 1919–1928 was published in Moscow, Smolensk, Minsk, Vitebsk.Twenty booklets were issued (about one third of all the publications in 1919-June, 1940). Some newspapers has been published as well but its share comparing with the other publications was rather small (5 of 81 publications). One of the most important publication of that period was "The Working Youth" issued in Smolensk. Here the greatest number of its was issues (36 of 51 copies).The international help of the Soviet Country enabled the leaders of the Komsomol press of Lithuania to get more experience, to prepare people for the underground work, to make them stronger both in politics and theory. ; Печать комсомола буржуазной Литвы в СССР занимает значительное место в его истории. Перенести издание за предeлы Литвы вынудил начавшийся террор после поражеиия прoлетарской революции. Сложившаяся обстановка определила необходимость переезда в страну Советов руководящих работников КП н КСМ Литвы и перенесение туда издательской базы КП Литвы. Местом нздания печатных органов комсомола в 1919-1928 гг. Были города Москва, Смоленск, Минск, Витебск. В это время здесь вышлo более 20 книжек (около 1/3 всех изданиыx в 1919-июне 1940 г.), а также несколько периодических (5 из 81 издаиия). Ведущую роль играл орган ЦК КСМ Литвы "Dаrbininkų jaunimas" («Рабочая молодежь», 1923-1933 гг.), в 1923-1928 гг. издававшийся в Смоленске (из 51 иомеров 36). Эта газета и бопьшинство других изданий комсомола Литвы вышли в издательстве ЦК КП Литвы в Смолеиске и только незначитeльная часть изданий в Москве, Витебске, Мивске.Благодаря нитернацновальной помощи Советской cтpaвы был приобретев опыт в работе, подготовлевы политически зрeлые кaдpы для подпольной рабoты в Литве.

ABSTRACTThe article presents an overview of differences between the fifteen Soviet republics in the field of political recruitment. The indicators of recruitment chosen are membership of the Communist Party and the Komsomol. The study covers the period 1956–73. The existence of significant differences is established. These differences tend also to remain over time. In the field of political recruitment, the western republics situated in the European part of the USSR behave differently from those of Central Asia. Finally, a connection between the differences in political recruitment and the differences in socio‐economic development is suggested. The political organizations tend, on the average, to have more members in the economically advanced areas and vice versa.

pt. 1. Gulag from the outside -- The NKVD : villain or protector? -- First acquaintance with Gulag NKVD : meeting at the Central Committee of the CPSU -- Meeting in the Cadres Department of Gulag NKVD -- 45 Days to Pechorlag -- pt. 2. Gulag from the inside -- At the Construction Administration -- Unit foreman, first contingent of prisoners : Soviet volunteer ski troops in the Finnish War -- The unit bosses -- A change in leadership at Pechorlag -- Transferred to the 93rd Unit, labor force : hardened criminals -- Attempted prisoner revolt in the 93rd Unit -- Boss and foreman at the 93rd Unit, labor force : political prisoners -- Threat of arrest -- The war -- Illness -- Recovery and return to work in the southern part of the camp -- Boss of a militarized section, labor force : captured German prisoners of war -- Boss of a railway division, labor force : professional railwaymen -- The "liberated" secretary of the Communist Youth Organization -- Fascist military landing force -- Deputy boss in the Political Department for Komsomol work at the NKVD's Road Building Camp No. 3 -- pt. 3. Interesting asides -- Some railroad recollections -- Peschanka, a village of de-kulakized people on the River Pechora -- The countryside of Komi on the River Usa -- Women at Pechorlag -- A fellow traveler from Abez to Pechora -- pt. 4. Final words -- The end of my story -- The real essence of the Gulag -- Afterword: The nature of memoir -- Appendix 1: Pretexts for arrest during the Stalin period -- Appendix 2: Article 58 of the RSFSR Criminal Code -- Appendix 3: Glossary

"Young people need their own theater, akin to their own spirit," wrote the actor Nikolai Kriuchkov in a memoir of his life in the theater in the 1920s and 1930s. While he acknowledged that the Soviet Union had developed a network of professional Komsomol theaters aimed at youth, Kriuchkov charged that in general these theaters simply duplicated the repertoire of conventional stages. But TRAM, an acronym for the Theater of Working-Class Youth (Teatr Rabochei Molodezhi), where Kriuchov got his start, was different. "It had its own topical themes, its own character, and young people went willingly."