Toggle menu
Toggle personal menu
Not logged in
Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits.

All-Union Leninist Young Communist League

From ProleWiki, the proletarian encyclopedia
More languages
All-Union Leninist Young Communist League

Всесоюзный ленинский коммунистический союз молодёжи
Founded29 October 1918
Dissolved28 September 1991
Political orientationMarxism–Leninism


The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, abbreviated Komsomol, was a communist youth organization in the Soviet Union.

History[edit | edit source]

Gorbachev and his followers turned the Komsomol into a training ground for future capitalists. They set up the USSR's first stock exchanges and private banks.[1]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Roger Keeran, Thomas Kenny (2010). Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union: 'Crisis and Collapse, 1989-91' (p. 202). [PDF] iUniverse.com. ISBN 9781450241717