TRANSFORMATION OF THE KOMSOMOL ELITE:REFLECTIONS AFTER THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VLKSM
Based on the events and memoirs of Komsomol leaders of the Russian Federation in honor of the centenary of the Komsomol, the role of this youth organization in Soviet society is analyzed. Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Komsomol, the official authorities showed and still show only the positive side of the activities of this organization, practically not covering how the propaganda and education of the materialist worldview, atheism, the need to fight against private property, market relations, bourgeois "representative democracy" was carried out during the Soviet period, while not only ordinary Komsomol members but their leaders were also quite superficially familiar with the Marxist-Leninist ideology, which in a certain sense also contributed to the rather rapid termination of the existence of the USSR after the proclaimed course on Glasnost during the period of Perestroika. By overthrowing former Soviet and Russian state officials from the historical Olympus, some researchers are trying to find specific perpetrators of the collapse of the USSR, which is unlikely to be the right direction of research when analyzing the transition from one social system to another after the bourgeois-democratic revolution of August 1991. Contradictory results are shown in the process of the formation of value attitudes of the personality during the period of the domination of communist ideology, which is an obstacle to new, effective management methods for a significant part of the modern political elite of the Russian Federation. The question is considered that at a certain historical stage the people determine the power. The statement is made about the need for modernization in modern Russian society, the success of which will consist in the commercialization of new technologies and only on the basis of a favorable socio-political environment.