The state policy on the rural youth of Arctic Yakutia in the 1970's-1980's

The study examined the Soviet state policy on the rural youth of Arctic Yakutia in the 1970s-1980s. There were no stand-alone laws on the state youth policy in the USSR. Laws and regulations on youth issues were a part of the general legislation. All legislative initiatives to regulate the youth policy came from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in some cases from the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (the Komsomol). In the 1970s-1980s, the state youth policy was based on the communist ideology. The Komsomol was the promoter of such a policy. At the same time, the emphasis was placed on the ideological communist upbringing of the younger generation. The involvement of a large number of young personnel in the agricultural industry led to the upturn in the Yakut agrarian sector in the period under consideration. The rural youth could use agricultural machinery more effectively; the mechanized labor prevailed over the manual one. In this regard, the government set itself the goals to improve youth upbringing and promote the unity of ideological and political, labor and moral education of young people in the light of the specific development of a modern village.