In 1926, in Moscow, in accordance with the resolution approved by the V Congress of the Comintern, the International Lenin School (ILS) was opened. In the system of communist universities, the ILS was assigned the role of the main educational center of the Comintern, intended for training the leadership of foreign communist parties. Over the twelve years of its existence, hundreds of professional revolutionaries passed through the classrooms of the school, many of whom became prominent representatives of the world communist movement: Josip Broz Tito, Erich Honecker, Vilko Cher venkov, and others. Despite the existing publications about the International Lenin School, the administrative aspects of its work have rarely been the subject of scientific research. In particular, the process of creating the ILS has not been properly covered in literature. The subject of this article is the activities of the Commission of the Organizational Bureau of the ECCI for the organization of the International Lenin School. Methodologically, the work is based on the comparison of various types of sources (office documents, party documents, personal sources) to comprehensively reconstruct the objective historical reality. A significant contribution of the author to the study of the history of the International Lenin School is the reconstruction of the main stages of the establishment of the educational institution: the discussion of the problem of communist education at the IV and V Congresses of the Comintern, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the VKP(b) making a positive decision on the establishment of the school in February 1925, the formation of a special Commission for organizing the ILS under the Organizational Bureau of the ECCI, the completion of the work of the Commission, and the establishment of the school's administration in the spring of 1926. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the reconstruction of poorly studied aspects of the history of the ILS and the introduction of a significant body of unpublished materials into circulation. Relying on significant archival materials (funds 495 and 531 from the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History), the author examined the circumstances related to the activities of the Commission that directed and coordinated all work on the establishment of the school: the inter-agency process of coordinating activities for organizing the ILS, the personnel policy of the school, the development of the curriculum and programs, the peculiarities of conducting the admission campaign, and so on.
Oleg Dmitrievich Pavlov (Thu,) studied this question.