Socialistický svaz mládeže. Vývoj a organizační struktura Socialistického svazu mládeže ve vztahu k archivnímu fondu ÚV SSM
The Socialist Youth Union

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the Socialist Youth Union (SSM) that was established as a volunteer social organisation of young people in 1970 and ceased its activities in 1990 after its transformation into newly formed association Union of Youth. The predecessors of SSM and the complicated situation in the youth movement in 1968–1969 are also mentioned. The paper provides basic information on SSM, it states main goals of the organisation, its essential documents stipulating the organisation activities, its inner structure including the organogram, names of SSM chairmen, its symbols, conditions of membership and the relation of the SSM to the Pioneer organisation. The SSM press and its own travelling agency CKM are mentioned. The other part of the paper deals with SSM as an originator of the archival documents housed in the National Archives. The contact between the SSM and the former State Central Archives was established shortly after SSM constitution. In 1971, an agreement between the State Central Archives and the Central Committee (ÚV) of the SSM on the pre-archival treatment was concluded and in the course of the following years, the State Central Archives (from 2004 on, the National Archives) took over archival documents of the SSM; the description of preserved documents, photographs and films follows, including the structure of the ÚV SSM archive and stating the level of accessibility for researchers. The paper is supplemented with abbreviations list, the list of literature pertaining to SSM before and after 1989, and illustration material.

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