About the tasks of the magazine "Red Youth"

About the tasks of the magazine "Red Youth"2

A source: Stalin I.V. Works. - T. 7. - M .: State publishing house of political literature, 1952, pp. 4–5.

Note 2: Ibid. S. 392.

In a conversation with members of the editorial board, Comrade Stalin , dwelling on the tasks of the journal, stated the following:

The main task of the journal should be to enlist the proletarian non-Party students in the work of the Soviet government and the Communist Party. The journal will achieve this only when it actually becomes a real Soviet student journal. Work in universities, the bodies of the People's Commissariat of Education, etc., of course, has a number of shortcomings. The students, who know these shortcomings better than anyone else, must systematically expose them, criticize them, and point them out so that we can improve our work together. It is therefore essential that the best people from the non-Party proletarian students should be widely enlisted in the journal. Students should feel that this is their own magazine, helping them to work and develop.

Concerning the tasks of some departments of the journal, Comrade Stalin noted the following:

In the political sections of the journal, it is necessary to cover only the main issues of the work of the party and [c.4] Soviet power. There is no need to duplicate other journals here. Each press organ in our Union must have its own definite place in the common work. The departments "Student Life", "Literary", "Science and Technology" should receive great development. These are the departments where the students themselves can actively participate and express themselves. In the Higher School Reform department, it is also necessary, along with teachers and professors, to involve students in the development of individual issues.

Realizing the slogan - "Closer to the students" - the journal will better fulfill its task and really become the native organ of the Soviet students.

Magazine “Red Youth”

No. 1(5), January 1925

NOTE

2 "Red Youth" - a monthly student magazine; was published by the Central and Moscow Bureau of Proletarian Students from May 1924 to November 1925. V.M. Molotov. In November 1925, the magazine was renamed "Red Students".