young people and education

• usually dressed as the young heroes of the new soviet society and encouraged to actively challenge the ideas of the older generation
• when did Komsomol form

  1926
• what was Komsomol 


  communist party youth organisation
• the Komsomol was used as a powerful instrument of propaganda and was in the forefront of the persecution of the church in the 1920s
• • with the 'great retreat' a more traditional role for young people was promoted
  • emphasis on traditional respect for authority figures and improvement in academic standards in education as society was transformed by rapid industrialisation