Sverdlov Communist University

The Sverdlov Communist University (Russian: Коммунистический университет имени Я. М. Свердлова) was a school for Soviet activists in Moscow, founded in 1918 as the Central School for Soviet and Party Work. After the death of the Bolshevik leader Yakov Sverdlov, the institution was named after him.[1] Its founding rector was Vladimir Nevsky.[1]

  1. ^ a b Read, Christopher (1990). Culture and Power in Revolutionary Russia. London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-349-11003-2.