#+title: Cosmopod - Komsomol Life

- tags :: [[file:../20200611204207-soviet_union.org][Soviet Union]] [[file:../20200621105741-komsomol.org][Komsomol]]

* Summary
Cosmopod episode with Sean Guillory of Sean's Russia Blog Podcast about the
Communist Youth.

* Notes
This episode may merit a re-listen.

- Komsomol acted as the central power out across the state, represented the
  Russian Communist Party throughout the country.
  - Komsomol acted as an expression of soft power throughout the country.
- The primary goal of the Komsomol was to train communists in the
  post-revolutionary period.
- Komsomol was plagued with problems:
  - Misogyny: numerous cases of rape, abuse
  - Inability to coordinate
  - "What does it mean to be a comrade?"
- The problems that arose from the Komsomol

* Related sources
- Memoirs of a Revolutionary - Victor Serge
- Thou Shalt Kill - Anna Geifman
- J Arch Getty, Sheila Fitzpatrick
- Intimate Enemies - Wendy Goldman
- Anguish, Anger, and Folk Ways in Soviet Russia - Gábor Tamás Rittersporn