[1] On July 10, 1918, on the initiative of Yakov Sverdlov, courses for agitators and propagandists were opened at the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.

On its basis, the Central School of Soviet and Party Work was created, which in July 1919 was renamed the Sverdlov Communist University.

In 1935, the university was transformed into the Sverdlov Higher School of Propagandists under the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

The new institution was named the Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee and was located on Vernadsky Avenue.

In the early 1990s, after the previous party-state system began to outlive itself, and the CPSU lost its political and legal status, there was no longer a need to train party personnel.