Leninist Young Communist League of Latvia
{{Short description|Latvian branch of the Soviet Komsomol}}
{{Infobox political youth organization
|name = Leninist Young Communist League of Latvia
LĻKJS
|native_name = {{langx|lv|Latvijas Ļeņina Komunistiskā jaunatnes savienība}}
|colorcode = red
|logo = File:Komsomol Emblem.png
|caption = Emblem
|logo2 =
|caption2 = Flag
|founded = 18 October 1940
|dissolved = 10 September 1991
|headquarters = Riga, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic
|ideology = {{ubl|Communism|Marxism-Leninism}}
|international = World Federation of Democratic Youth
|national = Komsomol
| mother party=Communist Party of the Soviet Union
| state party=Communist Party of Latvia
|preceded by=
|membership = 202,321 (1990)
|newspaper = Padomju Jaunatne
}}
The Leninist Young Communist League of Latvia ({{langx|lv|Latvijas Ļeņina Komunistiskā jaunatnes savienība}}, LĻKJS) was the Latvian branch of the Soviet Komsomol that served as the youth wing of the Communist Party of Latvia from 1940 to 1991.
History
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The LĻKJS was founded in 1940, during the Soviet occupation of Latvia, as a union of formerly clandestine communist youth organizations that operated in independent Latvia between the World Wars. Membership of the LĻKJS was predominantly ethnically Latvian, with a substantial Russian minority.{{cite book |last=Swain |first=Geoffrey |author-link= |date=2004 |title=Between Stalin and Hitler: Class War and Race War on the Dvina, 1940-46 |url= |location= |publisher=Routledge |page=207 |isbn= 1134321554}}
In early 1990, delegates at the LĻKJS Congress voted to adopt a new set of organisational statutes independent of the all-Union Komsomol, but not amounting to a full withdrawal. This action was precipitated by the independence of the Estonian and Lithuanian branches of the all-Union Komsomol in 1989 and 1990, respectively.{{cite book |last1=Tolz |first1=Vera |last2=Newton |first2=Melanie |date=2019 |title=The Ussr In 1990: A Record Of Events |url= |location= |publisher=Routledge |page= |isbn= 978-1000306859}}{{cite book |last=Pilkington |first=Hilary |author-link= |date=2013 |title=Russia's Youth and its Culture: A Nation's Constructors and Constructed |url= |location= |publisher=Routledge |page= |isbn= 978-1134876433}}