General characteristics of the Soviet state youth policy of the revolutionary and post-revolutionary period

the youth policy of the RSFSR and the subsequent policy of the USSR towards youth is a rather unique example for the world party and state organization of work with the younger generation. Ideological, political, social work with a certain part of young people was a conductor for a larger-scale ideological and social work of youth with the youth itself. The history of the formation and meanings laid down and changed in the state youth policy of Soviet Russia seem important for understanding the experience of working with youth in the socialist Soviet system. The article also examines the problems associated with the practical implementation of state policy towards youth during the revolutionary and post-revolutionary reorganization, notes the reasons why qualitative changes in the political component of the Komsomol's work could not occur, and the minimal political independence of the organization that existed before 1926 was abolished. It also reveals the philosophical and social approach to youth, reflected in political paternalism towards youth organizations and the Komsomol in particular, in the transformation of active participation of youth in the ideological and political work of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) into an instrument of ideological influence and education of the masses.

Komsomol, youth policy, RSFSR, socialist revolution