Arhivski vjesnik, Vol. 56 No. 1, 2013.
Original scientific paper
The Contribution for Studying History of the Youth Organizations Based on the Fonds RK SSOH (1942-1990)
Tatjana Šarić
; Hrvatski državni arhiv
Marijana Jukić
; Hrvatski državni arhiv
Abstract
In this article the authors give the historical overview of the role and position of youth and juvenile organisations in Federal/People’s Republic/Socialist Republic of Croatia in communist Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1990 mostly based on their research of the fonds HR-HDA-1231. RK SSOH as the basic and first rate historical source, while at the same time showing the course of its archival arrangement. The youth organizations − Young Communist League of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) and United Young Antifascist League of Yugoslavia (USAOJ), since 1946 known as People’s Youth of Yugoslavia (NOJ) − were in 1948 merged into a joint organization of NOJ and from the beginning of their work they served as a transmission of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Hence, their development, activity and organizational structure were determined by the guidelines from the top of the Party and state authority. In Croatia these organizations were active on the level of the republic as Provincial Committee of SKOJ for Croatia and United Young Antifascist League of Croatia (USAOH) /People’s Youth of Croatia and since 1948 they were merged into a unique youth organization, since they were part of the federal ones. In 1963, after the VII congress of NOJ, the title was changed into Young League of Croatia (SOH) and in 1974 it was changed again, this time into League of Socialist Youth of Croatia (SSOH). It was under that name it ceased its activity in 1990. This article deals with different aspects of youth organizations’ activity − founding, structure, organization, membership, political programs, activity aims and other important events linked with them, as well as relations with other social-political and cultural organizations and institutions. The researched period was turbulent and filled with many changes in state and social structure, as well as in government measures that directed them. The role of the youth in all of that was very important and total, since they and youth organisations were included in all processes that were occurring in the state. In the process the youth were both the executors and the important factors of government and party policy, but at the same time also the object of the execution of these measures. For example, some of the government measures included reconstruction and construction of the country, work actions, fast industrialisation and electrification, “socialist transformation of the village’’ − collectivization, literacy and ideological orientation during the immediate post-war period, together with all the current processes during the later periods. All this enabled a deliberate and systematically created socialist society with the figure of the ideal youth who was supposed to implement the government and party “line”. The second part of the article deals with the archival arrangement of the fonds HR-HDA-1231. RK SSOH. It shows in detail the course of the arrangement, goals and problems, while also giving an example of the arrangement of one of the working bodies − Commission for Ideological-Political Work. It also presents the entire structure of the fonds. The arrangement was synchronized with the current archival standards − ISAD (G) − general international standard archival description and ISAAR (CPF) − international standard archival authority record for corporate bodies, persons and families.
Keywords
NRH; SKOJ; USAOJ/USAOH/SOH/SSOH; NOJ/NOH; KPH/SKH; youth; ideological direction; reconstruction and construction; work actions; industrialization and collectivization; cultural and educational action; archival arrangement
Hrčak ID:
117267
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Publication date:
11.12.2013.
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