YOUTH POLICY STUDIES IN THE CONTEXT OF RENEWING THE RUSSIAN POLITICAL ELITE: RETROSPECTIVE OF RESEARCH
https://doi.org/10.18384/2224-0209-2025-4-1599
Abstract
Aim. To reconstruct the history of youth policy studies as a tool for the renewing the Russian political elite in the 20th–21st centuries.
Methodology. The corpus of texts by Russian researchers V. O. Klyuchevsky, I. M. Ilyinsky, O. V. Gaman-Golutvina, etc. was analyzed using historical-comparative and content analysis for three periods: pre-revolutionary and Soviet (1906–1990), post-Soviet (1990–2005) and modern (2005–pres.).
Results. The results of the study made it possible to trace the transformation of scientific views on the role of youth policy in the renewal of Russia’s political elite. The main theoretical concepts were systematized, and the key stages of their development were identified: from the consideration of youth as an object of state policy to its recognition as an active subject of political transformation. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the mechanisms of youth organizations’ influence on the processes of elite formation in different historical periods.
Research implications consist in the systematization of interdisciplinary approaches to youth policy studies. The developed periodization reflects the relationship between the evolution of youth policy and the transformation of elites and also substantiates the prospects of studying informal youth associations as factors of elite formation.
About the Author
Arina S. Devochkina
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Postgraduate student, Department of Sociology and Psychology of Politics, Faculty of Political Science
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