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.

In 1929–1930, it began to admit representatives of the communist parties of the Central European, Scandinavian, and Balkan countries, as well as Italy.

It turned into an international school for the preparation and education of the "fraternal" communist parties' reserve cadres, aimed at the best political émigrés to study in a 2-3 year special program.

Political émigrés already living in the USSR, Moscow, KUNMZ organized night courses to study special subjects, i.e. history of the CP of the countries of origin, mass work and party construction.

KUNMZ was dissolved following the decision of the Executive Committee of the Communist International's Secretariat of 7–8 May 1936.