Content of ideological work with Soviet youth in 1960–1980 (on the example of industrial enterprises in Kuibyshev Region)

The article examines various forms of work of Soviet party and public organizations for the ideological and political education of workers, the development of their labor and socio-political activity, and the ideological support of production tasks at industrial enterprises in the 1960s and 1970s. Attention is drawn to the importance of youth in strengthening interethnic unity and its role in the socio-historical transformations of a multinational state. Based on the analysis of archival documents, the article describes the organization of political and economic studies, party propaganda and political information, and measures to increase the effectiveness of the use of mass media in ideological and political work. The article concludes that the formation of a communist worldview, ideological conviction, and a conscious attitude to work among workers took place mainly in the system of party studies and economic education. It is especially noted that the expansion of political and economic education of workers had a fruitful effect on the affairs of production, on its technical improvement, and contributed to raising workers' consciousness. However, the existing shortcomings in the implementation of ideological work did not allow for a fundamental improvement in the state of labor discipline at industrial enterprises in the Kuibyshev Region in the 1960s and 1970s.