International Lenin School
국제레닌학교
The Comintern's official cadre training school, founded in Moscow in 1926 to provide a one-year intensive course in Marxist-Leninist theory and underground political techniques to hand-picked mid-level cadres from communist parties worldwide. Under its first director Nikolai Bukharin, the ILS trained some 3,500 communists from 59 countries before closing in 1938; its graduates returned home to take up leading party and editorial posts. Revived after the Second World War under the CPSU and continuing until the dissolution of the USSR, the school's later alumni included reform communist figures such as Alexander Dubček.
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- Wikipedia (EN) Wikipedia: overview of the ILS, its establishment, curriculum, scope, notable alumni, and post-war continuation
- Wikipedia (RU) Russian Wikipedia: founding date (September 1925), directors (Bukharin, Kun), location, and alumni list
- redstarpublishers.org Harry Haywood, Black Bolshevik (1978), Chapter 7: first-person account of the ILS by the first Black student assigned to the school, describing the curriculum, language groups, and the political dynamics of the 1927–1928 cohort