Profiles in Exhaustion and Pomposity: the Everyday Life of Komsomol cadres in the 1920s
Journal: The Carl Beck papers in Russian and East European studies
Year: 2014

The article examines the daily lives of Young Communist League (Komsomol) cadres in the 1920s argue that their ability to establish local authority through consent was often undermined by their everyday conditions. The article treats the emergence of the Komsomol’s nomenklatura and cadre appointment system after the Russian civil war, cadre workload, working conditions, health, attitudes, and the Komsomol leadership’s efforts to subordinate cadre malfeasance and corruption through public scandal