Revolutionary Communist Youth League (Bolshevik)
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Revolutionary Communist Youth League (Bolsheviks) Революцио́нный Коммунисти́ческий Сою́з Молодё́жи (большевики́) |
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| Leader | Alexander Batov |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
| Ideology |
Communism, Marxism–Leninism |
| Mother party | Russian Communist Workers' Party |
| Newspaper | Bumbarash 2017 |
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The Revolutionary Communist Youth League (Bolsheviks) (Russian: Революцио́нный Коммунисти́ческий Сою́з Молодё́жи (большевики́)) is a communist youth organization in Russia.
It was founded in 1997 after the split of RYCL and after the separation of the left part of it. Thus RCYL(b) considers itself the heir of the most progressive and communist part of AULYCL (All-Union Leninist Young Communist League).
The First Congress of RCYL(b) as an independent organization which ideologically took its bearings to RCWP (Russian Communist Workers Party; since 2001 RCWP-RPC, Russian Communist Worker's Party - Revolutionary Party of Communists - the oldest communist party in Russia of today which is engaged mostly with the labor movement) took place in 1997.
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union the communist movement in Russia has been in a deep crisis for about 15 years already. Ideological disorder, organizational weakness, separateness from the working mass have become usual things among the left forces. The Revolutionary Komsomol also exposed to uneasy trials. Firstly uniting in its lines activists of different ideologies (communists, Trotskyites, Maoists, anarchists, ultra-lefts, etc.). RCYL(b) in 1997–1998 began to feel great ultra-left influence. "Ultra revolutionary" rhetoric and the actions in that years and in the following ones finished into the arrest and imprisonment of some activists. In the RCYL(b)'s view, ultra-left mistakes were used by the bourgeois authorities to set up reprisals against RCYL(b). The ultra-left period made the Revolutionary Komsomol weaker to a marked degree.
The history of RYCL(b) before 2003 is characterized by the ideological fight among the supporters of the RCWP-line and the supporters of other trends. If in 1998 the main "alternative" trend was ultra-left then afterwards (until 2002) rather strong positions in RCYL(b) were taken by so-called "Maoism". Poly-ideological line officially declared by the Maoists and organizational anarchy finished into actual decentralization of the Revolutionary Komsomol, into its degeneration into a net of weakly connected regional groups. The existence of RCYL(b) itself made a problem. In 2002 the RCWP-supporters managed to finish into minimum the influence of this trend. However in 2001–2003 there were some attempts to resuscitate the ultra-left trend in the Revolutionary Komsomol.
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