Leninist_Young_Communist_League_of_Latvia

Leninist Young Communist League of Latvia

Leninist Young Communist League of Latvia

Latvian branch of the Soviet Komsomol

The Leninist Young Communist League of Latvia (Latvian: Latvijas Ļeņina Komunistiskā jaunatnes savienība, LĻKJS) was the Latvian branch of the Soviet Komsomol that served as the youth wing of the Communist Party of Latvia from 1940 to 1991.

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History

Badge commemorating the 60th anniversary of the LĻKJS

The LĻKJS was founded in 1940, during the Soviet occupation of Latvia, as a union of formerly clandestine communist youth organizations that operated in independent Latvia between the World Wars. Membership of the LĻKJS was predominantly ethnically Latvian, with a substantial Russian minority.[1]

In early 1990, delegates at the LĻKJS Congress voted to adopt a new set of organisational statutes independent of the all-Union Komsomol, but not amounting to a full withdrawal. This action was precipitated by the independence of the Estonian and Lithuanian branches of the all-Union Komsomol in 1989 and 1990, respectively.[2][3]

References

  1. [1]
    Swain, Geoffrey (2004). Between Stalin and Hitler: Class War and Race War on the Dvina, 1940-46. Routledge. p. 207. ISBN 1134321554.
  2. [2]
    Tolz, Vera; Newton, Melanie (2019). The Ussr In 1990: A Record Of Events. Routledge. ISBN 978-1000306859.
  3. [3]
    Pilkington, Hilary (2013). Russia's Youth and its Culture: A Nation's Constructors and Constructed. Routledge. ISBN 978-1134876433.
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