Youth in revolutionary Russia: enthusiasts, bohemians, delinquents

Anne E. Gorsuch

Choice Reviews Online · 2001 · 140 citations · 0 references

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"In Bolshevik Russia, the successful transformation of young people into communists was crucial for the future of the Soviet state. Soviet youth needed to be shaped into communists in every aspect of their daily lives - work, leisure, gender relations, and family life. But how could the Bolsheviks accomplish this enormous project? What did it mean to be "made communist"