The Institute of Red Professors of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) () was an institute of graduate-level education in the

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located in the Orthodox Convent of the Passion,

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History

It was founded in February 1921 to address a shortage of Marxist professors but only about 25 percent of its graduates continued an academic career; most rather became functionaries of the Communist Party. At first it was under the jurisdiction of the

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and later under the Department for Agitation and Propaganda (

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). The studies lasted four years and students (nicknamed ''ikapisty'') were required to write research papers, which were often published and represented a significant body of Marxist historical research. Two hundred thirty-six students completed the course between 1924 and 1929. In 1929, there were 69 teachers at the institute, seven of whom were not members of the Communist Party. Its rectors were Mikhail Pokrovsky (1921–31) and

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(1932–38). The institute was abolished in 1938. The institute was integrated into a system of higher party schools of the

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References

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