Rural youth of the first third of the 20th century and its impact on society from the perspective of contemporary researchers

The article studies historiography of the rural youth phenomenon during the war, reforms and revolution. The author tries to highlight the most important conclusions of modern Russian and Belarus historians discussing the fundamental changes in the behavioral model of the rural society development, including demographic one, as a response to the existing challenges of the modernization era and the period of institutional changes. Innovative assessment of the impact of the transformation period of youth associations on the peasant generation, the role of youth in the evolution of the moral state of society is revealed.