Young Communist League of Czechoslovakia
| Young Communist League of Czechoslovakia | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1921 |
| Dissolved | 1936 |
| Succeeded by |
|
| Headquarters | Prague |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
| Mother party | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia |
| International affiliation | Young Communist International |
The Young Communist League of Czechoslovakia (Czech: Komunistický svaz mládeže Československa), nicknamed Komsomol, was a youth organization in Czechoslovakia, active between 1921 and 1936. The organization was the youth wing of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.[1] The organization was the Czechoslovak section of the Young Communist International.[2]
In October 1920 the majority of the
Jan Šverma, K. Aksamit, Emil Hršel, O. Synkové, V. Synkové, J. Zika, J. Černý and M. Krásný were leading figures in the Young Communist League. The organization issued several publications, such as Mladý komunista, Komunistická mládež, Pravda mládeže and Mladá garda.[6]
The organization was dissolved in 1936, being substituted by different ethnic youth organizations; the Youth League (Czech), the Slovak Youth League, the German Youth and the Hungarian Youth League.[1]
References
- ^ München: Oldenbourg, 1979. pp. 176
- ^ Lazić, Branko M., and Milorad M. Drachkovitch. Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern. Stanford, Calif: Hoover Institution Press, 1986. p. 185
- ^ Wingfield, Nancy Merriwether. Minority Politics in a Multinational State: The German Social Democrats in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1989. 25
- ^ Ústav marxismu-leninismu ÚV KSČ (1981). Geschichte der Kommunistischen Partei der Tschechoslowakei. Dietz Verlag. p. 91.
- ^ Cornell, Richard. Youth and Communism: An Historical Analysis of International Communist Youth Movements. New York: Walker, 1965. p.
- ^ a b "Komunistický svaz mládeže Československa - CoJeCo.cz".