KOMSOMOL MEMBERS OF THE RUSSIAN PROVINCE OF THE FIRST CALL: ATTITUDE AND POLITICAL ACTIVITY

Abstract

The definition of such terms as ―generation of revolution‖, ―generation of revolutionary change‖ used in the literature includes people born after the 1890s., whose social formation and political activity occurred at the time of the revolution and civil war. At the same time, even narrower social groups can be seen within this generation, among which the author singles out the generation of the first Komsomol members as a specific social group that unites people of the same age and common opportunities. The participants in the revolutionary transformations, who were born in the 1890s, were already formed personalities: they grew up in a traditional environment, with its traditional values. Boys and girls who joined the communist union in 1919-1920 were for the most part born at the beginning of the 20th century. For them principles, values, rules, traditions, that remained unshakable and traditional for their parents, in the difficult conditions of a changing reality lost their exclusivity and absoluteness. The capability to have a different worldview, andbehavior, accordingly, was at a certain stage reinforced by certain forces that used it for their own purposes. At the same time, as it often happens in times of social change, social lifts began to work, giving teenagers real opportunities to break out of the reality that was predicted for them by their original existence and available opportunities. The formation of the ―generation of Komsomol members‖ in various regions of the country, with a common trend, took place under the influence of local subjective factors. Here, Orenburg region is taken as a region, the Orenburg province - the southeastern outskirts of the European part of the country. The source base is built on the sources of personal origin of the region in question.

Keywords

• communist youth union
• province
• first generation
• sources of personal origin
• views
• political activity