What is a Komsomol? Deciphering the concept will be very familiar to our compatriots of the middle and older generation. But many youth representatives will probably experience difficulties with explaining what it is. Recall this relic of a bygone state.
Komsomol: decoding and essence
In the Soviet country, abbreviations and compound words were very fond of. These are the GULAG, the Cheka, DOSAAF, SMERSH, OBKHSS, the TRP, the secretary general, regional committee, research institutes and many others in this countless series of terms unfamiliar to people from outside, but easily recognizable to tens of millions of inhabitants of the Union republics. In this row was the abbreviation Komsomol. The interpretation of the concept was as follows: The All-Union Leninist Communist Youth League. In short, it could also be called simply the Communist Youth Council.
Komsomol Central Committee: decryption
Although this organization was formally considered a product of amateur performances, of course, it was actually organized by the will of the country's top leadership. In the likeness of the
party system, the Komsomol had its own Central Committee,
that is, the central committee, which served as the supreme body of the youth wing and directed the entire work of the Komsomol cells and organs. Every Komsomol district committee was subordinate to the committee in any corner of each republic.
History of the Komsomol
By its nature, the Komsomol was a mass socio-political organization for all Soviet youth. The Komsomol badge was received by boys and girls when they reached the age of 14 (that is, the organ was the next step for yesterday's pioneers). The Komsomol was created as the youth wing of the Communist Party on the eve of the October Revolution in 1917. Of course, the organization did not immediately take its final form. In the first half of 1917, its Petrograd prototype was called the "Socialist Union of Workers' Youth". The inspirer of its creation was Vladimir Lenin. A year later, the organization grew into an all-Russian organization, and even later extended its activities to other Soviet republics, lasting until the death of the state itself, the brainchild of which
she was.
The role of the Komsomol in the life of the Soviet country
The union was a totalitarian state. This word is often used today as a rebuke to the heritage of our people. However, together with the negative trends inherent in such systems, they often have positive aspects. An important fundamental characteristic of any totalitarian regime is the universal control of society in all its spheres: social, economic, political, spiritual. The state not only ensures its own stability, but also directs the process of educating its citizens: control over the content of literature and cinema, propaganda of humanistic ideas. At the first stage of its existence, the Komsomol was an important tool in promoting the education of the peasants in the masses, the elimination of illiteracy, and so on. Later, the Komsomol was at the forefront of Soviet youth, demonstrating examples of the highest achievements in sports, science and other possible implementations.