Komsomol

All-Union Leninist Young Communist League Всесоюзный ленинский коммунистический союз молодёжи
Founded	29 October 1918 (1918-10-29)
Dissolved	28 September 1991 (1991-09-28)
Succeeded by	Russian Communist Youth League
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism
Mother party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
International affiliation	YCI WFDY
Newspaper	Komsomolskaya Pravda

The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League,^[a] usually known as Komsomol,^[b] was a political youth organization in the Soviet Union. It is sometimes described as the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), although it was officially independent and referred to as "the helper and the reserve of the CPSU".

The Komsomol in its earliest form was established in urban areas in 1918. During the early years, it was a Russian organization, known as the Russian Young Communist League, or RKSM. During 1922, with the unification of the USSR, it was reformed into an all-union agency, the youth division of the All-Union Communist Party.

It was the final stage of three youth organizations with members up to age 28, graduated at 14 from the Young Pioneers, and at nine from the Little Octobrists.^[1]

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