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	Komsomol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Komsomol (Комсомол) is a syllabic abbreviation word, from the Russian Kommunisticheski Soyuz Molodiozhi (Коммунистический союз молодёжи), or "Communist Union of Youth".
		Komsomol served as the youth wing of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the youngest members being fourteen years old, the upper limit for an age of rank and file being 28, while komsomol functionaries could be older.
		But Komsomol played an important role as a mechanism for teaching the values of the CPSU in the young, and as an organ for introducing the young to the political domain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Komsomol (585 words)

	Komsomol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Komsomol is a portmanteau word, from the russian Kommunisticheski Soyuz Molodezhi, or Communist Union of Youth.
		Komsomol had little direct influence on the Communist Party, and so the government of the soviet union, but as a mechanism for teaching the values of the CPSU in the young, and as an organ for introducing the young to the political domain, Komsomol fulfilled an important role in Soviet government.
		However, under the reforms of Gorbachyov Perestroika (restructuring) was accompanied by Glasnost (openness), which revealed Komsomol as an organisation out-of-touch with modern youth, and no longer serving their interests, the calibre of Komsomol leadership was low, and these, and other, structural problems could no longer be hidden in the new, more open, atmosphere.
	www.theezine.net /k/komsomol.html (443 words)

	Young Communists
		Komsomol members generally prided themselves on the purity of their commitment to building a Communist society.
		They were particularly hostile to manifestations of religious belief, practiced a kind of revolutionary asceticism that excluded drinking, pre-marital sex, affectations of dress or engagement in the "frivolous" activities of their peers, and chafed under the compromises with the bourgeoisie and kulaks that the New Economic Policy prescribed.
		As was the case in the party, full-time Komsomol activists were required to uphold the party line, and were subjected to periodic oversight and purging.
	www.soviethistory.org /index.php?action=L2&SubjectID=1924komsomol&Year=1924 (505 words)

	RUSNET :: Encyclopedia :: K :: Komsomol
		The Komsomol was organised in 1918 in order to band together various youth organisations that had previously been involved in the Russian Revolution; many of these groups had fought in the Civil War.
		Komsomol membership reached its height in the 1970s and early '80s with a membership of about 40 million.
		All Komsomol cells were federated at levels paralleling those of the party.
	www.rusnet.nl /encyclo/k/komsomol.shtml (279 words)

	CNN.com - New Komsomol: More Charity, Less Ideology - November 13, 2000
		The Komsomol, after all, was once central to the life of youth in the Soviet Union -- a political obligation, source of camaraderie, and seemingly bottomless labour pool for Communist Party leaders with grandiose visions to draw on.
		At least as far as the communists are concerned, the Komsomol revival suggests their sacrifices on behalf of the revolution were not in vain.
		The Komsomol, an acronym for the All-Union Leninist Communist League of Youth, was organized in 1918 in order to band together various youth organisations that had previously been involved in the revolution; many of these groups subsequently fought in the civil war.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/11/13/russia.komsomol (1838 words)

	Komsomol biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		fr:Komsomol Komsomol (Комсомол) is a portmanteau word, from the Russian Kommunisticheski Soyuz Molodezhi (Коммунистический союз молодёжи), or "Communist Union of Youth".
		The organisation served as the youth wing of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the youngest members being fourteen years old, the upper limit for an age of rank and file being 28, while komsomol functionaries could be older.
		As a result, many Komsomol leaders had got a chance to get rich quick, Mikhail Khodorkovsky being a prominent but otherwise typical example.
	komsomol.biography.ms (515 words)

	Sports Deep Background: Reference Detail
		Komsomol members enthusiastically participated in all of the great construction projects of the industrialization drive in the 1930s (often working alongside political prisoners and living in similarly primitive conditions).
		By the 1970s, however, its own youthful enthusiasm had died down and the Komsomol had become mostly just a necessary stepping stone to a career--almost everyone belonged to it, and anyone who didn't was viewed with suspicion.
		The official newspaper of the Komsomol, "Komsomolskaya Pravda", actually managed to survive the breakup of the Soviet Union--it is perhaps even more respected as a periodical today than it was when the Komsomol still existed.
	www.pbs.org /redfiles/sports/deep/sports_deep_ref_detail.htm (1033 words)

	Komsomol celebrates 80 years with nostalgia
		At its inception in 1918 by Party leaders seeking to broaden their power base, the Union was less of a social club than more of a training ground for political and military battles of the Revolution.
		Though the name Komsomol may have passed on with the Party dogma, the spirit of the organization lives on the minds of many adults throughout Primorye and the former Soviet Union.
		A "Long Live Komsomol" poster marks the occasion of the 7th anniversary of the Revolution, and newspapers, membership cards, trowels, and boots serve as physical reminders of what is meant to be a Komsomolets.
	vn.vladnews.ru /Arch/1998/ISS179/text/upd4.html (717 words)

	The Komsomol by Curt Minich
		Since we are evaluating the role of the Komsomol and how it is responsible for the current condition of the YCL, we can deduce that by political influence we mean some ability to use and express initiative in helping formulate political policy independently, which would give a member some sort of satisfaction.
		David Lane forms the description that technically the Komsomol is a part of the political leadership because by nature it is not in a "middle range of power,” nor is it a facet of mass participation (although arguably it has become that).
		Zamascikov notes, "Gradually the Komsomol grew from a volunteer organization of young zealots to an unofficial ministry for youth affairs."31 Just because the current membership is around 38 million, it is by rights a mass organization.
	www.minich.com /portfolio/Komsomol.html (3316 words)

	Komsomol - TheBestLinks.com - Bolshevik, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, CPSU, Glasnost, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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		Komsomol (Комсомол) is a portmanteau word, from the Russian Kommunisticheski Soyuz Molodezhi (Коммунистический союз молодёжи), or "Communist Union of Youth".
	www.thebestlinks.com /Komsomol.html (586 words)

	A New Generation of Revolutionaries
		The members of the Komsomol are young communists, but a communist distinguishes himself from an ordinary fighter, first of all, by being able to solve problems in complicated situations posed by real life while standing by the proletarian class point of view, and not accepting as truth any unjustified lie of bourgeois propaganda.
		The members of the Komsomol understand very well that changing society for a better one is possible only through the path dictated by practical revolutionary struggle, not by electoral means.
		The basic reason why the youth joins the Komsomol is its intentions: to struggle for a better life for all the oppressed, and within their organization they learn how to struggle.
	www.mltranslations.org /Russia/ossettia.htm (912 words)

	Bulgaria - Youth Organizations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With a peak membership of 1.5 million in 1987, the Komsomol had the same organizational structure as the BCP, with a secretariat and executive bureau analogous to the Politburo at the top and a pyramid of local and regional sub-organizations.
		Beginning in the mid-1970s, the Komsomol's lack of self-confidence was revealed in a series of party meetings, speeches, and programs aimed at explaining and combatting apathy and materialism in Bulgarian youth.
		By the late 1980s, the Komsomol was widely seen as a hollow facade; between 1987 and 1989, membership dropped by 30 percent after compulsory registration ended in secondary schools.
	countrystudies.us /bulgaria/51.htm (424 words)

	Komsomol Capitalism - SPECIAL REPORT - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Komsomol stepped out on to the entrepreneurial road involuntarily when in 1971 the Soviet authorities finally realized that the situation in the housing sector was bordering on the catastrophic.
		Once again the Komsomol functionaries were the avant-garde as the capital that was accumulated by the founders of trading exchanges became the foundation for dozens of banks.
		The further development of Komsomol capitalism was marked with numerous scandals during privatization.
	www.mosnews.com /money/2004/11/15/komsomolbusiness.shtml (1207 words)

	Document 39
		Davidovich--the former secretary of one of the Komsomol dist[rict] com[mittees] in Moscow.
		Kosarev and the MC [Moscow Committee] of the Komsomol the question of her participation in factionalist groups in the Polish party and her suspicious entry into the country ([through] West[ern] Belorussia).
		In 1921, he was the secretary of the Bauman district Komsomol committee in Moscow; from 1924 to 1926, the secretary of the Penza provincial Komsomol committee.
	www.yale.edu /annals/Chase/Documents/doc39chapt5.htm (2464 words)

	Document 48
		Gruzdev is a Komsomol member, born in 1915, the son of a kulak, from Kovrov Raion.
		As a result, when party and Komsomol members heard direct attacks and speeches by the enemy, they did not go on the offensive, did not seize the counterrevolutionary by the hand.
		I happened to be present when leaders of Komsomol study groups were being quizzed, and few had any conception of the party's fight against the Zinoviev and Trotskyite influences, against the rightists.
	www.yale.edu /annals/siegelbaum/English_docs/Siegelbaum_doc_48.htm (633 words)

	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Gorbachev
		Gorbachev began his political career in the Komsomol, the traditional training ground for Soviet party officials.
		In 1956 he became first secretary of the Komsomol organization for the city of Stavropol’.
		In 1958 he accepted a position in the propaganda department of the Komsomol committee for Stavropol’ Territory.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761552563___10/Gorbachev.html (424 words)

	l6120804
		The communist children and youth collectives.-The Pioneer and Komsomol organizations are special collectives with the primary function of aiding children to develop an ideological basis for citizenship in a socialist society (the growing child finds many opportunities to practice good citizenship, to participate in the life of society and to solve problems collectively).
		The Komsomol representative keeps a record of social behaviour of the student while the teacher records academic achievement, Extracurricular, vacation and socially useful activities are also planned by the Komsomol.
		The Komsomol aims at motivating students to learn good study habits, practise self-discipline, cooperate with peers and adults and participate in useful social activities within the school and the community.
	www.wccta.net /gallery/fwr/loop/l6120804.htm (2623 words)

	Komsomol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Besides that, the Komsomol was a more popular organization than the party since the party was a leader of the proletariat, its members were supposed to possess at least a minimal political qualificaton.
		Komsomol was an organization aimed at upbringing, it could accept even "raw material", uninitiated young proletarians.
		The 22nd Extraordinary Congress of VLKSM (September 1991) decided the role of VLKSM as a federation of communist unions of youth to be completed.
	www.iremember.ru /nagrady/komsomol.htm (130 words)

	Scouting in the Pioneer Movement. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In all of this the Central Committee of the Komsomol saw tendencies toward centralization and conversion of local circles for special interests into parallel children's organizations, with a suspicious and even hostile social membership of children and adults.
		According to a proposal by the TsK VKP(b) to achieve class education of children and unity of leadership for children's movements, the Komsomol advocated the de-centralization of all non-Pioneer children's organizations, which would receive the status of school circles under the leadership of the Komsomol and the Pioneers.
		The Komsomol also proclaimed that the Pioneer organization was the one organization for children, "recognizing, organizing, and directing the initiative and activity of the mass of children in a communist direction, under the leadership of the RKP and RLKSM".
	www2.prestel.co.uk /church/sha/pioneer.htm (814 words)

	The Guardian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Leningrad Young Communist League (Komsomol) is not the largest regional Komsomol organisation in the country but is certainly the most active and one of the strongest organisations in Russia.
		Members of the Komsomol decided to show that the great ideas of Lenin have not been forgotten under the reign of the present criminal regime.
		A Komsomol leader, Semyon Borzenko said the subbotnik "was highly successful mainly because we managed to show our people the benefits that the socialist system can give them and what they have lost.
	www.zip.com.au /~cpa/garchve3/1043kom.html (468 words)

	"Sisters" by Vikenty Veresaev - from SovLit.com
		Her higher soul is entirely given to the Komsomol, to communism, and the rational conduct of life.
		If the Komsomol does not strike out right in front of us--and in front of the whole Party--to pursue some striking, burning object, doesn't move out of its narrow path into a broad, creative road, we shall begin to rot and become dislocated in our joints.
		At the bureau of the Komsomol cell, Dorofiev, the secretary of the general factory cell, is disputing with Grisha Kamershov, the secretary of the pressing department cell.
	sovlit.com /sisters (11414 words)

	On the 80th Anniversary of Young Communists
		In fact, without him, few would have recalled the actual date of the Komsomol's "birthday." On the surface, Communism is being resurrected not just by the Communist party, but also by one of the most powerful politicians in the country.
		The share of true believers among Komsomol leadership was actually smaller than among the rank-and-file: leaders knew what the whole thing was about and had an eye on a career rather than "liberation of the working people of the world." In other words, you had to sound "politically correct" (the term sounds familiar, doesn't it?).
		Such tacit understanding was more characteristic for the Komsomol than for the Communist Party, though, probably because in the 1970s and even in the 1980s the majority of party members still had personal recollections of the early years of the Komsomol, when Communist ideology was stronger and more people sincerely believed it.
	cns.miis.edu /cres/elenavi.htm (1611 words)

	Propaganda Deep Background: Reference Detail
		The "Little Octoberists" ("Oktyabryata" in Russian), a rather harmless organization for all 7-9 year olds (1st through 3d graders in the Soviet educational system), were the first rung in the Soviet social system that led through the Pioneers to the Komsomol, and ultimately Party membership.
		Little Octoberists were organized into cells of 5, under the tutelage of a responsible Pioneer, and sang and played games while learning such traits as neatness, obeying one's elders, studying hard, and otherwise preparing to become good Pioneers in their own time.
		Teenagers who had been exemplary Pioneers would be nominated for membership in the Komsomol.
	www.pbs.org /search/redir/http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/prop/deep/prop_deep_ref_detail.htm (2850 words)

	Greenwood Publishing Group I1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This book examines in detail the formation of the Communist Youth League or Komsomol since its inception in 1917 and presents a social and institutional history of the organization and its impact on the first decade of Soviet power.
		By concentrating on Petrograd up to 1920 and by using a broad range of sources, this unusual study provides a clearer perspective on the mass efforts of Soviet youth during the early consolidation of the revolution.
		It describes the origins of the Komsomol, its institutionalization in 1918, its development during the Civil War, its economic and educational activities, and its relationship to the Communist Party.
	info.greenwood.com /books/0313259/0313259224.html (336 words)

	ForValor.com - Captain Kramarenko
		Comrade Kramarenko was one of the first to force the Bug River and with soldiers, he was in the water for three days where he personally participated in repelling enemy attacks.
		Komsomol organizers of the Company and Battalion organizations who became casualties were replaced immediately.
		From the Komsomol organization structure, 8 people were awarded the title "Hero of the Soviet Union".
	www.forvalor.com /s69.htm (1696 words)

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