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komsomol
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Russian communist youth organization, 1934, from Russian Komsomol, contraction of Kommunisticheskii Soyuz Molodezhi "Communist Union of Youth."
Wikipedia
Komsomol may refer to:
- Komsomol, the former Communist Union of Youth in the Soviet Union
- Komsomol, Beylagan, a village in Azerbaijan
- Komsomol, Salyan, a village in Azerbaijan
- Komsomol, Kazakhstan, a village in Kazakhstan
- Komsomol, Russia, a selo in Sheinsky Rural Okrug of Suntarsky District of the Sakha Republic
- Komsomolobod, Farkhor District a Jamoat in Tajikistan
- K-3 Leninsky Komsomol, the first nuclear submarine of the Soviet Union.
The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League , usually known as Komsomol (, a syllabic abbreviation from the Russian kommunisticheskii soyuz molodyozhi), was a political youth organization in the Soviet Union. It is sometimes described as the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), although it was officially independent and referred to as "the helper and the reserve of the CPSU".
The Komsomol in its earliest form was established in urban centers in 1918. During the early years, it was a Russian organization, known as the Russian Young Communist League, or RKSM. During 1922, with the unification of the USSR, it was reformed into an all-union agency, the youth division of the All-Union Communist Party.
It was the final stage of three youth organizations with members up to age 28, graduated at 14 from the Young Pioneers, and at nine from the Little Octobrists.
Usage examples of "komsomol".
For many months I had been envying the boys who wore the dark-red badges of the Komsomol in their button-holes.
Often, when the Komsomol printers marched from the old part of the town to their club in Zhitomir Street, I would stand for a long time watching them pass.
It had never entered my head that I could join the Komsomol here, at the Party School.
Only that morning Father had been saying that a big detachment of Communists and Komsomol members had left town to clean up a bandit gang.
I had been so glad when I learned that Polevoi was in favour of my joining the Komsomol, and it had been such a blow when I had been asked to leave the meeting.
The runner turned out to be that stocky Komsomol member who had been chairman at the Komsomol meeting and had asked me to leave the hall.
I was paired up with the student who had shown me out of the Komsomol meeting.
When I used to look after the Komsomol club in Balta, I got very keen on them.
The next day, Saturday, Sasha was a little better, the swelling had gone down, but it was clear that to appear at the Komsomol meeting in such a state would be to ruin everything.
When we arrived, the meeting had already begun and the Komsomol members were standing and singing The Young Guard.
The sight of him sitting there beside old Komsomol members made me feel that the question of his acceptance had been settled long ago.
We with our objection would only make fools of ourselves here, among members of the best Komsomol organization in town.
The purpose of self-criticism, Misha said, was to help each Komsomol and Young Pioneer to perfect himself, to see his own defects and to rid himself of them as quickly as possible.
We all know that he is a good Komsomol and that he is devoted to the cause of the Revolution, but his faults prevent him from giving society the benefit that he could otherwise have given.
But on the other hand, he was not an adult, but a Komsomol like the others.