Youth policy in Siberia during the transition to the NEP 1921-1923

the article examines the problems of the implementation of youth policy by the Bolshevik leadership in Siberia after the end of the civil war and at the beginning of the transition to the New Economic Policy (1920–1923). During the civil war, only the basic contours of youth policy were outlined. After the restoration of Soviet power and the beginning of the transition to the NEP, this policy actually had to be formed anew. The main features of youth policy implementation in the region are highlighted, where the spaces dictated a significant degree of autonomy of the activities of policy subjects in conditions when the bulk of the population was represented by rural residents with a low literacy level. The complexities of agitation and propaganda work in this environment are revealed. The influence of the crisis in the Komsomol of 1921-1922 on work with youth is determined. The main directions of youth policy in the context of the new economic policy are shown, as well as the role of the Komsomol in the political field as an instrument for implementing the course of the RCP(b). The forms and methods of political and educational activity with working and peasant youth are revealed. Attention is paid to attempts to introduce opposition manifestations in the party environment into the Komsomol organizations of the Siberian region. The consolidating role of political and educational activity in the youth environment is shown.

political subjects, political education work, image of the future, communism, utopianism, RCP(b), provincial committees of the RKSM, Komsomol cells, People's Commissariat of Education, megaregion