The Komsomol Struggle against Other Public Organizations the Impact on Youth in the 1920s

The article analyzes the main directions of the struggle of Komsomol with a number of other youth organizations in our country in 1920s, the young Communist League was formed as one of the Communist organizations among diverse youth who were engaged in addressing social challenges facing the young generation in the first decade after the revolution. Komsomol acted, along with political, peasant, national, sports and youth organizations. Under the leadership of the CPSU(b) Communist League fights for the displacement and elimination of alter native organizations. Originally from the system of youth organizations in the course of a fierce struggle disappear all the non-socialist enterprises, and then comes the turn of anarchists and other Communist organizations. The Komsomol actively participated in the defeat of the scout movement, in part by accepting some of its functions on the organisation of youth sports. The young Communist League is struggling with national youth organizations, seeking their dissolution, as in the case of the Communist Union of Jewish youth (Еcomol). Simultaneously, the young Communist League is working with other Pro-government public organizations such as the OSOAVIAKHIM. In the process of developing its policy, the Komsomol moving closer to such public authorities as the OGPU, in this case actively uses the possibilities of the security organs to achieve exceptional situation among young people.

komsomol, the youth organization, the anarchists, scouts, sports, Ekomol, CPSU(b), OGPU, OSOAVIAKHIM

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