Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (СССР in Cyrillic)- the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Also known as the Soviet Union, the USSR, or (almost always incorrectly) Soviet Russia. The last designation will be our first subject. (This only covers stuff pre-glasnost, when things changed very quickly) The CPSU had a youth movement, Vsesoyuzny Leninskiy Kommunisticheskiy Soyuz Molodyozhi (All-Union Leninist Young Communist League), better known as Komsomol. Age limit was 14-28. The fifteen states of the USSR and their independent names-