International Lenin School

The International Lenin School was for 12 years a training center of the Comintern in Moscow and after the Second World War, an offer of the CPSU for young communists from all over the world until 1990.

The school was founded in 1926 and was the Comintern form until 1938. Then there were ideologically formed about 3,500 Communists from 60 countries, who were sent by their communist homeland parties to the school. Most Lenin students ( about 400 ) came from Germany at that time.

The school was initially led by Nikolai Bukharin, after his expulsion from the party of Klavdiia Kirsanowa. From January to May 1932 led Wilhelm Pieck the Lenin School.

Well-known graduates of the Comintern school

Some graduates of the Lenin School clothed later leading functions in communist governments, such as Nikolaos Zachariadis in Greece, Josip Broz Tito in Yugoslavia, Wladyslaw Gomulka in Poland or Erich Honecker, Erich Mielke, Elli Schmidt and Heinz Hoffmann in the GDR.

Lenin School after 1956

A secret school of the same name was built by the Soviet Communist Party in the late 1950s. She was a boarding school on the outskirts of Moscow city center and offered Communists from Europe and especially from Latin America training years. In the illegality workers there also spent transit times. All students were required to maintain strict confidentiality. There, learned men and women aged from 20 to over 50 exclusively from capitalist or dictatorial countries, excluding socialist countries, including party chairman. Normal was a year of study, which dealt with ML, strategy and tactics, as well as with the history of the labor movement; the peculiarities of the country of origin a flowed. All events were translated simultaneously. The late 1970s, considerable debate and controversy tirades with the delegates from there as opposed to the policy of " revisionist " KPI and the Euro -communist Reformed KPF took place at the site. The lecturers have been co-opted by the Moscow State University and from the party cadres. Among the best known professors ( " teachers " ) belonged January Vogeler. " Comrades" from West Berlin received two months training. The school was abandoned in the late 1980s under Gorbachev.