The revolutionary-Bolshevik Maria Oskarovna Aveide as a leader of the youth movement in Samara in 1917-1918
The paper analyzes the activities of the revolutionary and teacher Maria Oskarovna Aveide aimed at promoting the ideas of Marxism among boys and girls during the pre-revolutionary period in Samara. The author establishes her role in creation of the youth Bolshevik organization - «Agitator group of youth» in Samara on the eve of the October revolution. The paper also examines the multifaceted activities of this youth organization in the political life of the city in 1917-1918: participation in the development of the first Soviet departments, military action against the counterrevolutionaries, the propaganda of revolutionary ideas among the workers, campaigning during the preparation for the elections to the Constituent Assembly, clandestine activities in the period of domination of the Czech legionnaires in Samara. The author also reveals the character of the ideological and theoretical training, which was carried out by M.O. Aveide and invited experienced Bolsheviks. The paper is based on the study of the documents of the federal (State Archive of the Russian Federation) and regional (Samara Regional State Archive of Socio-Political History and the Central State Archive of the Samara Region) archives, as well as the memories of this revolutionary’s students. This study allows to establish the contribution of M.O. Aveide in the organization and the ideological content of the predecessor of Komsomol.