Communist Academy

Communist Academy
Коммунистическая академия
AbbreviationКомакадемия
Merged intoAcademy of Sciences of the Soviet Union
Formation1918
Dissolved1936
TypeScientific institution
HeadquartersMoscow
Official language
Russian
Formerly called
Socialist Academy of Social Sciences

The Communist Academy (Russian: Коммунистическая академия, transliterated Kommunisticheskaya akademiya) was a higher educational establishment and research institute based in Moscow. It included scientific institutes of philosophy, history, literature, art and language, Soviet construction and law, world economy and world politics, economics, agrarian research, as well as institutes of natural and social science. It was intended to allow Marxists to research problems independent of, and implicitly in rivalry with, the Academy of Sciences which long pre-existed the October Revolution and the subsequent formation of the Soviet Union.[1][2]

  1. ^ David-Fox, Michael (2016-11-01). Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918–1929. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-5017-0539-7.
  2. ^ Graham, Loren R. (1993), Science in Russia and the Soviet Union : a short history, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, p. 86, ISBN 0-521-28789-8