The Main Contradictions and Principles of Managing the Implementation of Youth Policy in Russian Universities
https://doi.org/10.15826/umpa.2026.01.001
Abstract
The transformation of the vital activity of modern societies, associated with technological development, digitalization, and the escalation of geopolitical tensions, actualizes the youth issue and formulates new challenges to the system of state youth policy. In this context, an important research problem is the analysis of the correspondence of the purposeful actions of the state in the field of youth socialization to the socio-cultural features in which modern
Russia finds itself. The article analyzes the main stages of youth policy implementation in the country’s recent history, highlights its key dysfunctions and contradictions.
The article pays special attention to the analysis of theoretical and methodological approaches to the conceptualization of youth policy by one of the leading Russian sociologists of youth, Yu. R. Vishnevsky.
Based on the analysis of the scientist’s recent works, the author of the article integrates his ideas, trying to identify the features of the current stage of the implementation of Russian youth policy, as well as outline the directions of its development. The analysis of individual studies of the Ural School of Youth Sociology, as well as the author’s own developments, made it possible to formulate in the article the key principles of implementing a nationally oriented youth policy in the context of modern social transformations.
About the Author
V. A. Smirnov
http://umj.ru
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Vladimir A. Smirnov, Doctor of Sociology, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department
Faculty of Sociology; Department of Modern Sociology
119234; Leninskie gory, MSU, 1. p. 33; Moscow
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Smirnov V.A. The Main Contradictions and Principles of Managing the Implementation of Youth Policy in Russian Universities. University Management: Practice and Analysis. 2026;30(1):5-15. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.15826/umpa.2026.01.001
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