Polish christian youth in the cold war: A Generation’s Potential Lost in Exile

• Autores: Sławomir Łukasiewicz
• Localización: Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century: Catholic Christian Democrats in Europe and the Americas / Wolfram Kaiser (aut.), Piotr H. Kosicki (aut.), 2021, ISBN 978-94-6166-422-8, págs. 161-190
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Without an influx of young activists, a political party will sooner or later start losing its potential and its position. One of the mechanisms that allows a political party to retain its freshness and periodically revive its political capacity is to create and maintain so-called youth wings. A study carried out in the years 1960 to 1989 showed clearly that, among the organisations affiliated with European political parties, the largest numbers of members were found in those that brought together young people and women.¹ Youth organisations, in which the age criterion applies, by default perform auxiliary political functions,² yet they...