About the formation of youth culture in the legacy of Academician Oleg Elel’yanovich Kutafin

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the works of Oleg Kutafin, devoted to the organization of educational activities among young people, the formation of the culture of the youth. Guided by his own experience at the university, Oleg Kutafin emphasized the special role of educational institutions in organizing work on the formation of culture and worldview of young people, which was carried out by universities along with party and other public institutions. The main goal of educational work with students was seen by Oleg Yemel’yanovich in the formation of the worldview of the younger generation based on the ideological values of Soviet society traditional for that period. The article presents an analysis of the scientist’s works devoted to the organization of educational work with young people, in particular, the academician’s articles “Forms of educational work with students in the conditions of a correspondence university” (1970) and “Permanent Commissions on Youth affairs of the Soviets” (1971), as well as O. Е. Kutafin’s interview in the scientific journal “Legal World” and scientific publications containing memoirs of contemporaries and students of academician O. Е. Kutafin are analyzed.