Vysoká škola politická ÚV KSČ

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Former building of the party college in Prague-Vokovice

Vysoká škola politická ÚV KSČ , abbreviated VŠP ÚV KSČ, German Political College of the Central Committee of the CPC , was similar to the party college "Karl Marx" the highest own educational institution of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) with seat in Prague and was the central committee of the party directly assumed. Conceived as a cadre forge, it was founded on the model of the party college of the CPSU in Moscow . After 1971 there was also a party school in Bratislava , Vysoká škola politická ÚV KSS (VŠP ÚV KSS), which was subordinate to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovakia .

The purpose of the school was the theoretical training of party members who were intended for a party career. The questions of the theory of Marxism-Leninism and the history of the labor movement were in the foreground. The school was divided into 25 chairs and departments. It employed over 200 political teachers (professors, lecturers and assistants).

The school was founded under a different name in 1953 and has had different names over the years:

  • 1953–1961: Vysoká stranická škola při ÚV KSČ (party college at the CPC Central Committee)
  • 1961–1965: Vysoká stranická škola - Institut společenských věd při ÚV KSČ (Party College - Institute for Social Sciences at the CPC Central Committee)
  • 1965–1990: Vysoká škola politická ÚV KSČ (Political College of the Central Committee of the CPC)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Vysoká škola politická ÚV KSČ , brief summary on: www.totalita.cz
  2. ↑ a b Peter Dinu: Vysoká škola politická ÚV KSČ , in: Series Studia politica slovaca, Štúdie a analýzy, p. 14ff., Online at: sav.sk / ...
  3. ↑ badatelna.eu / Národní archiv, online at: badatelna.eu / ...

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