Student trade union organizations in the system of political management of the Soviet society in the first years of the Soviet power: economic and political conditions of formation

The article examines the reforms of the first years of Soviet power in the sphere of higher education in the context of creating fundamentally new frames for its functioning that created conditions for the appearance of trade unions in the university environment. The first stage was the formation of trade union organizations of teachers and employees. This system was subsequently supplemented by student trade unions. Their place and role in the system of political management was predetermined both by ideological guidelines of the leading bodies of the Soviet state, and by a certain degree of pragmatism that stimulated the definition of the economic, domestic and cultural spheres of life of the university community as a sphere of activity of trade unions. The authors analyze the everyday and political conditions, in which the stage of formation of university trade unions was held, and their interrelations with the choice of concrete form of their organizational embodiment.