Communist University of the National Minorities of the West

Former Marchlevski University in Moscow, also known as the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West

The Communist University of the National Minorities of the West (KUNMZ – Kommunistichesky Universitet Natsionalnykh Menshinstv Zapada; КУНМЗ - Коммунистический университет национальных меньшинств Запада) was created by a 28 November 1921 decree of the Council of People's Commissars and charged with training party cadres from the western regions of Russia and the Volga Germans.[1] The first rector of the university was the Polish communist Julian Marchlewski, which the university was later named after.

  1. ^ Köstenberger, Julia (2001). "Die Geschichte der "Kommunistischen Universität der nationalen Minderheiten des Westens" (KUNMZ) in Moskau 1921-1936". Jahrbuch für historische Kommunismusforschung 2000/2001 (PDF). pp. 248–303. ISBN 3-351-02681-1. Retrieved 15 December 2021.