The Young Communist League of Czechoslovakia (), nicknamed Komsomol, was a youth organisation in Czechoslovakia, active between 1921 and 1936. The organisation was the youth wing of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.Collegium Carolinum (Munich, Germany), and Karl Bosl. Die erste Tschechoslowakische Republik als multinationaler Parteienstaat: Vorträge d. Tagungen d. Collegium Carolinum in Bad Wiessee vom 24.-27. November 1977 u. vom 20.-23. April 1978. München: Oldenbourg, 1979. pp. 176 The organisation was the Czechoslovak section of the Young Communist International.Lazić, Branko M., and Milorad M. Drachkovitch. Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern. Stanford, Calif: Hoover Institution Press, 1986. p. 185
In October 1920 the majority of the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Youth voted to approve the twenty-one conditions of the Communist International and to join the Young Communist International.Wingfield, Nancy Merriwether. Minority Politics in a Multinational State: The German Social Democrats in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1989. 25 The Young Communist League of Czechoslovakia was founded on 20 February 1921, through the merger of Czech, Slovak, and German youth groups.Cornell, Richard. Youth and Communism: An Historical Analysis of International Communist Youth Movements. New York: Walker, 1965. p. The membership fluctuated between 8,000 and 13,000, later reaching a peak of about 24,000 members in the 1930s. In 1922 a pioneer movement was started as a subsection of the Young Communist League.
Jan Šverma, K. Aksamit, Emil Hršel, O. Synkové, V. Synkové, J. Zika, J. Černý and M. Krásný were leading figures in the Young Communist League. The organisation issued several publications, such as Mladý komunista, Komunistická mládež, Pravda mládeže, and Mladá garda.
The organisation was dissolved in 1936, being substituted by different ethnic youth organisations; the Youth League (Czech), the Slovak Youth League, the German Youth and the Hungarian Youth League.
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