title: Soviet Youth during the Great Patriotic War through the Eyes of State Security Agencies
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metadata.value: Savin, A. I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-09-19T11:07:08Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-09-19T11:07:08Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-06
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metadata.value: Savin A. I. ‘Soviet Youth during the Great Patriotic War through the Eyes of State Security Agencies’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 12, no. 2, 2022, pp. 288–302.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2022.202
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37797
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article introduces unique documents about the security agencies of the USSR into academic
  circulation. An analysis of these documents and literature enables the author to make new claims about the traditional
  dual attitude of the Stalinist state towards young people. On the one hand, young people made a large
  contribution to victory over the enemy both at the front and in the rear. However, especially as the end of the
  war approached, youth were increasingly interpreted as a dangerous social environment, giving rise to many
  anti-Soviet organizations and groups. The war danger spurred Chekists to be extremely suspicious of any form of
  organized youth amateur activity, be it literary or philosophical groups, let alone quasi-political organizations. As
  a result, state security authorities with redoubled energy set about identifying and eliminating potential political
  deviations among the youth. First of all, the target was the children of the outcasts of Soviet society: the “former”,
  “former kulaks”, and “enemies of the people” from among the Soviet elites. At the same time, the war temporarily
  weakened ideological pressure, giving rise to hopes among broad strata of society for certain relaxations and
  even reforms after the war. A new factor at the final stage of the war was the mass of young people who found
  themselves in captivity or in the occupied territories, both imaginary and real collaborators, as well as participants
  in the armed nationalist movement in Ukraine and other Soviet Republics. The response of the security agencies
  to the intensification of deviant youth activity was the traditional measures of the intelligence services: building the
  large-scale undercover informant net in the student and student environment, as well as falsification of cases of
  anti-Soviet organizations.
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 12; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Great Patriotic War
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: state security agencies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: youth
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: underground
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Soviet Youth during the Great Patriotic War through the Eyes of State Security Agencies
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metadata.value: Article
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