Children’s Press as a Leader and Organizer of the Masses: on the History of Komsomol Leadership over the Management of to Your Pioneers Periodicals in Moscow in the 1920s
Abstract
This article examines the process of creation of the young pioneers’ central periodicals in the mid-1920s (“Pioneer”, “Drum”, “Kolkhoz’ Fellows” etc.). The main focus of the article is on the analyses of the Komsomol activities in creating the system of control and management of the Young Pioneers’ publications and their overall activities.
Key words: Komsomol, young pioneers, magazines for children, 1920s, Soviet ideology