Sverdlov Communist University

In July 1918, courses for agitators and instructors were established in Moscow under the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. In January 1919, the courses were transformed into the School of Soviet Work. On its basis, by order of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (b), the Central School of Soviet and Party Work was established, renamed in July 1919 into the Communist University named after Y. M. Sverdlov. By a decree of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union on January 6, 1938, the All-Union Communist Agricultural University named after Ya. M. Sverdlov was closed. ==Staff==

The prominent political activists who lectured at the university included: Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Yakov Sverdlov, Maxim Gorky, Mikhail Kalinin, Valerian Kuybyshev, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Nikolai Bukharin. Notable teachers at Sverdlov Communist University included: • Vladimir Nevsky (1919–1921) • V. P. Antonov-Saratovsky (1921–1923) • Martyn Liadov (1923–1928) • Konstantin Maltsev (1928–1931) • N. Lvov (1932–1934) • V. Uvarov (1934–1935) • Gindin (1936–1937) ==References==