What is Komsomol?
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}} {{Infobox political youth organization |name = All-Union Leninist<br />Young Communist League |native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|ru|Всесоюзный ленинский коммунистический союз молодёжи}}}} |colorcode = red |logo = [[File:Komsomol Emblem.svg|150px]] |founded = {{start date|1918|10|29|df=yes}} |dissolved = {{end date|df=y|1991|09|28}} |headquarters = |succeeded by = [[Russian Communist Youth League]] |ideology = {{ubl|[[Communism]]|[[Marxism–Leninism]]}} |mother party = [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] |international = {{ubl|[[Young Communist International|YCI]]|[[World Federation of Democratic Youth|WFDY]]}} |newspaper = ''[[Komsomolskaya Pravda]]'' }} The '''Komsomol''' was the Communist Youth League in the [[Soviet Union]]. It was officially called the '''All-Union Leninist Young Communist League.''' It started in 1918. It was for people from 14 to 28. For people under 14 there was the [[Young Pioneers]], and for under 9 the [[Little Octobrists]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hulicka |first1=Karel |title=The Komsomol |journal=The Southwestern Social Science Quarterly |date=1962 |volume=42 |issue=4 |pages=363–373 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42867730 |access-date=16 July 2023 |issn=0276-1742}}</ref> In March 1926 there were 1,750,000 members: 6% of the eligible youth population.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Gorsuch | first1 = Anne E | year = 1992 | title = Soviet Youth and the Politics of Popular Culture during NEP | journal = Social History | volume = 17 | issue = 2| pages = 189–201 | jstor=4286015 | doi=10.1080/03071029208567834}}</ref> It didn't have much political influence but it was important for teaching the values of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPSU]] to the younger generation. ==References== {{reflist}} {{multistub|politics|Europe}} [[Category:Organizations based in the Soviet Union]] [[Category:Youth organizations]] [[Category:1918 establishm