Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal. 2021. № 1 (37). P. 138—148
07.00.00 HISTORICAL SCIENCES AND ARCHEOLOGY
UDC 94(571)“1956/57”
Murenko Denis Igоrevich, Postgraduate Student
Institute of History of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
SOCIO-POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE KHRUSHCHEV “THAW” (BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF THE KOMSOMOL COMMITTEE OF TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY 1956—1957)
Abstract
The article attempts to characterize the socio-political activity of young people during the early “thaw” on the basis of the activities of the Komsomol Committee of Tomsk State University. The main practices of political and educational work of Komsomol in relation to student youth are considered. The source base of the study was the funds of the Center of Documentation of the Latest History of the Tomsk Region, periodical materials — the university newspaper “For Soviet Science”, the printed organ of the Tomsk Regional Committee of the Komsomol “Young Leninist”, as well as oral history materials. It was concluded that with the beginning of the “thaw”, the introduction of new attitudes into the educational process, in particular the rejection of dogmatism in teaching social sciences, stimulated the Komsomol activists to search for new forms of work with young people and lead to the formation of an activist-type political culture, which found embodiment in the desire to expand the boundaries of student self-government, as well as in socio-political discussions.
Key words
Students, disputes, “thaw”, political culture, men of the Fifties, intelligentsia, public sentiment, dissents.
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Murenko D. I. Socio-political transformations of the Khrushchev “thaw” (based on the materials of the Komsomol Committee of Tomsk State University 1956—1957). Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal, 2021, no. 1 (37), pp. 138—148. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32516/2303-9922.2021.37.11.