ABSTRACT
Every revolution glamourizes youth as the mainstay of the new regime. Propaganda posters from the early Soviet years show healthy young revolutionaries fighting elderly degenerate reactionaries. The latter were not only physically out of shape, but they looked outdated in their spats and monocles. Soldiers of the revolution, on the other hand, were not only vigorous and strong but also clad in line with the new revolutionary dress code. Statues of young workers with hammers and peasants with sickles adorn many Soviet public places, offering a visible image of the new order. Soviet novels glamourizing revolution and civil war extol youthful heroes. Schools, kindergartens, day-care centers, summer camps, and "Pioneer" palaces were given priority by the regime, to educate new cohorts devoted to the Cause. By the time World War II ended, Soviet schools were well- organized and disciplined places, where properly dressed children followed a strict curriculum, all postrevolutionary "nonsense" having been forgotten long before.
