| Leninist Young Communist League of Latvia LĻKJS
Latvian: Latvijas Ļeņina Komunistiskā jaunatnes savienība | |
|---|---|
 Emblem | |
| Founded | 18 October 1940 |
| Dissolved | 10 September 1991 |
| Headquarters | Riga, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic |
| Membership | 202,321 (1990) |
| Ideology | |
| Mother party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| State party | Communist Party of Latvia |
| International affiliation | World Federation of Democratic Youth |
| National affiliation | Komsomol |
| Newspaper | Padomju Jaunatne |
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.
History
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
- ^ Swain, Geoffrey (2004). Between Stalin and Hitler: Class War and Race War on the Dvina, 1940-46. Routledge. p. 207. ISBN 1134321554.
- ^ Tolz, Vera; Newton, Melanie (2019). The Ussr In 1990: A Record Of Events. Routledge. ISBN 978-1000306859.
- ^ Pilkington, Hilary (2013). Russia's Youth and its Culture: A Nation's Constructors and Constructed. Routledge. ISBN 978-1134876433.