Development of Youth Policy in the Russian Federation in the 1990s

The article represents an overview of the process of developing the youth policy of the Russian Federation in the 1990s. The aim is to identify the features of this process and the reasons for changing the paradigm of young people education. The relevance is defined by the fact that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the civil-patriotic and spiritual-moral element of education was lost in the youth policy. Throughout the 1990s this aspect never reappeared in the youth policy. In this regard, it seems important for the history of the youth policy development to identify the reasons for the loss of the civil-patriotic and spiritual-moral element in the education of young people. The article examines the prerequisites and conditions of adopting a new youth policy, the content of youth policy at each stage of its formation, analyzes the results and features of the formation of youth policy as of 1999. Historical, comparative-historical and logical methods were used in the research. Together, they made it possible to study this period, make comparisons with other periods and recreate the process of development of the youth policy in all the variety of links involved in it. The scientific novelty of the study is defined by the attracted range of sources that have not been introduced into scientific circulation before. These include archival documents of political parties located in the State Archive of the Russian Federation. In addition, the study involved data from the periodical press of the 1990s and interviews of individuals who were actively involved in setting the course of youth policy. Reconstruction of the process of developing the youth policy in the Russian Federation in the 1990s made it possible to reveal its features. In particular, it was revealed that under the influence of complex historical events of the late 1980s and 1990s the civil-patriotic and spiritual-moral education of young people was lost in the concept of youth policy. At that time, the emphasis was only on the economic component.

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