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COMMUNIST HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE YOUTH highlights the important role of the Bulgarian General Secretary of the Comintern during the Popular Front, Georgi Dimitrov. Dimitrov's unique definition of fascism facilitated a theoretical revision of Leninism on the issues of nationalism, the unity of youth and democracy. His conceptions of the Popular Front established a new paradigm and framework for young communists to function within, enabling the British and American YCLs to significantly reconstruct their political identity. 9
1 VANGUARD OF THE RED DAWN: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE LENINIST GENERATION All we have to do is recruit young people… without fearing them. This is a time of war. The youth… will decide the issue of the whole struggle. -Lenin, 1905 1 The workers had to pay for the fraud for years of an International which, in truth, never existed, and paid at the cost of 90 millions of cripples, 10 millions of dead and of nameless misery for the lack of a strong and determined international organization. The young workers ought to remember this. -Executive Committee of the Young Communist International, 1920 2 In November, 1919 the Young Communist International established itself as the youth coordinating body of the Communist International. 3 The YCI was neither a creation of Lenin's Bolshevik Party nor did it originate in the young Soviet Republic. 4 The YCI grew out of the anti-war struggles of the socialist youth, proclaiming itself as the direct organizational heir of the pre-war Socialist <strong>Youth</strong> International (SYI). During World War I, socialist youth increasingly rejected the "national defense" positions of the Socialist Parties of the Second International (SI), facilitating generational tensions over the antiwar militancy of the youth. 5 Lenin's Bolshevik Party capitalized upon this dynamic, courting the SYI to leave the Second International en masse in 1919. During the twenties, the YCI sought to construct a "Leninist Generation" of revolutionary youth, free from the ideologies and traditions of the Second International. The Leninist Generation demanded a strict oppositional political culture, denouncing all other traditions, organizations and ideologies for enabling the survival of capitalism and betraying the advance of revolution. 6 This YCI analysis blurred the important ideological discrepancies of postwar political movements, significantly underestimating the dangers of fascism. The YCI's initial program and political identity was constructed in part by the Comintern, but also in reaction to the experiences of youth during WWI. Young communists insisted capitalism and imperialism were the causes of modern warfare. In order to abolish modern warfare, young communists asserted that capitalism needed to be destroyed. The YCI contended that in following the "correct" lead of the Comintern, the 10
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NATIONALISM put them to the test in
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NATIONALISM men, women or child mer
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NATIONALISM The second type of issu
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NATIONALISM with chauvinism.... Com
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NATIONALISM Parliament. Youth force
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NATIONALISM Political liberty is es
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NATIONALISM Civil War, whose result
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NATIONALISM constitution stated, "T
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NATIONALISM The YCLUSA could not ut
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4 UNITY OF YOUTH: FROM SECTARIANISM
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UNITY OF YOUTH countries." 12 The Y
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UNITY OF YOUTH While fascism framed
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UNITY OF YOUTH In stark contrast to
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UNITY OF YOUTH Though the YCL propa
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UNITY OF YOUTH At the earliest poss
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UNITY OF YOUTH The Leninist YCL den
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UNITY OF YOUTH strating that if "ou
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UNITY OF YOUTH nists made for a uni
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UNITY OF YOUTH Circle League insist
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UNITY OF YOUTH ated the themes of y
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5 DEMOCRACY: FROM DENUNCIATION TO D
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DEMOCRACY Young communists did not
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DEMOCRACY of freedom, the slogan of
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DEMOCRACY racy. YWL rhetoric dismis
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DEMOCRACY lenge offered such a foru
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DEMOCRACY Army men have a share in
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DEMOCRACY the imperialist role of B
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DEMOCRACY Road to Victory: Marching
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DEMOCRACY Popular Front strategies
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DEMOCRACY by fighting "to defend an
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DEMOCRACY Another component of the
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DEMOCRACY The Leninist Generation e
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DEMOCRACY published a songbook enti
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DEMOCRACY statements like, "We spea
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DEMOCRACY aggression against democr
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DEMOCRACY tional Brigades, who were
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THE YOUTH STRUGGLE AGAINST WAR to u
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THE YOUTH STRUGGLE AGAINST WAR This
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THE YOUTH STRUGGLE AGAINST WAR of t
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APPENDIX Nazi NCYCLGB NCYCLUSA NSL
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APPENDIX Illustration 3 (Page 49).
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APPENDIX Illustration 8 (Page 71).
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APPENDIX Illustration 12 (Page 120)
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NOTES political displacement by his
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Communist Party Collec
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Chemodanov, V. Struggl
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Labour Party NEC, "Lea
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BIBLIOGRAPHY YCLGB. A Congress of Y
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Connolly, James. "Soci
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YOUTH AGAINST FASCISM Todd, Nigel.
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