Communist University of the Toilers of the East

It performed a similar function to the International Lenin School, which mainly accepted students from Europe and the Americas.

[citation needed] From summer 1922, the KUTV had regional branches in Baku (in Azerbaijan), Irkutsk (in Siberia, Russia), and Tashkent (in Uzbekistan).

Amongst those who taught there were Anatoly Lunacharsky, Leonid Krasin, Mikhail Pokrovsky, Khalid Bakdash, Igor Reisner, and Boris Shumyatsky.

A report from the University of Virginia notes: KUTV came to an end during the Great Terror of 1937-38, together with many Comintern institutions and cadres.

A sizeable proportion of its faculty and Moscow-based alumni was arrested and even executed, dealing a major blow to Soviet expertise.