COMMUNIST YOUTH UNION IN SCHOOL IN THAW PERIOD

In the article the author has tried to statistically measure the state of school Komsomol organizations in the USSR in late 1950s ? beginning of 1960s: based on the materials of the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, which were first implemented in scientific usage. The author also showed dynamics of changes in quantity of school Komsomol organizations, number of pupils and teachers in the overall composition of All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (AULYCL). Increase of school Komsomol organizations is considered as factor of “youthification” of the organization.