1930년대 초반 이재유그룹 학생운동 성원의 사회주의운동 입문 경로 = Pathways into Socialist Activism among Student Members of the Lee Jae-yu Group in the Early 1930s

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This article traces the biographies of members of the student division who coalesced around the Lee Jae-yu Group during the Kyŏngsŏng Troika period in 1933, examining their characteristics as activists. At a stage when the overall activities of the Lee Jae yu Group have been reconstructed to a certain extent, a deeper understanding of its members is considered a meaningful task for reassessing the historical significance of the group within the Party Reconstruction Movement of the 1930s. To this end, the patterns of participation among students whose involvement in the socialist movement can be confirmed are categorized into three pathways of entry into activism: connections through family or acquaintances, school-based reading circles, and links with external party reconstruction groups.
The cases of the student members of the Lee Jae-yu Group demonstrate that the momentum accumulated through the 1929 Gwangju Student Movement did not dissipate but continued to operate into the early 1930s. Moreover, the continued socialist engagement of these students resulted from individual commitments to remain within spaces of activism such as reading circles and clandestine organizations. Compared to earlier periods, socialist participation among students in the 1930s assumed a more underground character, and activist capacity was transmitted informally through individuals, reading circles, and party reconstruction networks. This form of endogenous continuity constituted an important background that enabled the Lee Jae-yu Group to recruit a substantial number of students by 1933.
The trajectories of student members’ activism indicate that the Party Reconstruction Movement achieved a certain degree of success in terms of activist reproduction, while also suggesting the need to reinterpret the socialist movement of the 1930s from the perspective of historical continuity.