Party college of the CPSU
The Party College of the CPSU ( Russian Высшая партийная школа (ВПШ) ) " Vladimir Ilyich Lenin " was the highest political training institution of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union .
Party college at the Central Committee
The party college existed in Moscow from 1939 to 1991. The Russian State University for the Humanities has been located at the same location since 1991 . Numerous functionaries from the GDR were also trained in one or three-year courses at the university .
At the university there were chairs for the history of the CPSU, Marxist-Leninist philosophy , scientific communism, political economy , building the party, the modern international communist and labor movements and the national liberation movements, Soviet economics, the economy of agriculture, constitutional law and the Soviet Development, journalism and literature, Russian language, foreign languages.
At the school, party members of higher education studied up to the age of 40 who had been party members for at least five years. They were proposed to the Central Committee of the CPSU by the Central Committees of the Communist Parties of the Soviet Republics, regional and allied parties.
The training lasted two years. The university supported other countries of socialism in the training of cadres for party and state. Around ten thousand party and state officials completed the training. In 1970 the school had 720 students. In all faculties (except language) there were 120 lecturers, including 21 professors and post-docs.
Well-known German alumni
(in brackets the study period)
- Oskar Fischer (1962–1965)
- Egon Krenz (1964–1967)
- Günter Schabowski (1967–1968)
- Helmut Holter (1985–1987)
Decentralized universities
In addition to the Moscow University at the Central Committee, there were numerous decentralized party universities of the CPSU.
The building of the former higher party school in Khabarovsk (Far Eastern Academy of Public Service)
The building of the former Volgograd Higher Party School (Volgograd State Medical University)
The building of the former higher party school in Rostov-on-Don 2015
See also
Web links
- Article party college of the CPSU in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
Coordinates: 55 ° 46 ′ 37.6 " N , 37 ° 35 ′ 44.4" E