The social problems of young generations of Northern
Eurasia (Scandinavia, Great Britain, Germany, Russia) were
investigated and are still being investigated rather intensively.
All the same, the Juvenology at present does not touch enough
upon the history of the youth movements of several north-
Eurasian nations in the middle of ...
(Show more)The social problems of young generations of Northern
Eurasia (Scandinavia, Great Britain, Germany, Russia) were
investigated and are still being investigated rather intensively.
All the same, the Juvenology at present does not touch enough
upon the history of the youth movements of several north-
Eurasian nations in the middle of the 20th century. The social
history of the youth of non-Russian nations in Russia-USSR
and the history of the youth leagues in Ural-Volga region, in
Kazakhstan, in Caucasian region, in Central Asia and
Mongolia, which together make an enormous party of Northern
Eurasia, are hardly studied at all.
I have recently renovated the methodological basis of the
research in the history of the youth movements. Considerable
theoretical innovations and new assessments of the role of the
society have been introduced by serious changes in Russia and
neighbour countries within the recent 10 year period. The
education and profession have lost the basic social
characteristics as the principles determining the self-
conscience and the attitude of the youth towards the world. The
whole complex of class-forming characteristics have retreated
to the background, whereas the problem of the generations gap,
the glaring differences between generations have turned out to
be in the focus of the public and scientific attention, being most
important factors of the social grouping.
Young generations of Northern Eurasia nations in 20th
century endured many social catastrophes, revolutions and
wars. The nations of the continental Europe underwent
revolutions and civil wars in the period from 1905 to 1945, and
their youth faced many problems. The establishment of
totalitarian regimes in Russia, Germany and some other
countries had totally transformed the life of these nations. It
was the way to democracy, to contemporary civil society and
social state, full of hardships, violence and bloodshed.
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