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The Komsomol was a Soviet communist youth organization that was generally viewed as the youth wing of the Communist Party.
Komsomol Quotes in Sofia Petrovna
The Sofia Petrovna quotes below are all either spoken by Komsomol or refer to Komsomol. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5
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Sofia Petrovna even wrote to Kolya about the injustice Natasha had suffered. But Kolya replied that injustice was a class concept and vigilance was essential. Natasha did after all come from a bourgeois, landowning family. Vile fascist hirelings, of the kind that had murdered comrade Kirov, had still not been entirely eradicated from the country. The class struggle was still going on, and therefore it was essential to exercise the utmost vigilance when admitting people to the party and the Komsomol.
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Komsomol Term Timeline in Sofia Petrovna
The timeline below shows where the term Komsomol appears in Sofia Petrovna. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2
...and her relative are dead. She’s a staunch supporter of the Soviet Union, but the Komsomol—a communist youth organization—won’t let her in because her father was a high-ranking military man and...
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...made at work. He immediately tells her that he’s now an official member of the Komsomol. Going on, he excitedly talks about his day, mentioning that there was an argument at...
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Chapter 3
...to go to college to study mechanical engineering, and Kolya is passionately committed to the Komsomol, speaking frequently to Sofia about politics and communism. He has a strong sense of right...
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Chapter 5
...day and talking to Sofia about politics—just like Kolya used to do. And yet, the Komsomol once again denies her application. Sofia writes to Kolya about how unfair it is that...
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Kolya thinks the Komsomol will let Natasha in after a few years. He, for his part, is quite excited...
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Chapter 11
...Alik informing her that he has returned to Leningrad after being kicked out of the Komsomol. He was kicked out, he explains, because of his association with Kolya. He refused to...
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Chapter 12
...is innocent. She plans to tell him about how Kolya was a member of the Komsomol and how the newspaper recently celebrated him for his ingenuity as a Soviet engineer.
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Chapter 18
...for a vacation, and that he met a beautiful woman named Ludmila who’s in the Komsomol. Kolya and Ludmila, she claims, are engaged to be married. Everyone is very impressed, and...
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