The Socialist Academy of Social Sciences (SAON) was an educational establishment created in Russia in October 1918 with "the aim of studying and teaching social studies from the point of view of scientific socialism."
The original name of the academy was chosen over the proposal to call it the "Communist Academy", owing to objections raised by
Left Socialist-Revolutionaries
The Party of Left Socialist-Revolutionaries-Internationalists () was a revolutionary socialist political party formed during the Russian Revolution.
In 1917, the Socialist Revolutionary Party split between those who supported the Russian Pro ...
. They had supported the
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical Faction (political), faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, ...
seizure of power in November 1917, but had withdrawn that support in March 1918. Nevertheless, they continued their involvement in such institutions as the Socialist Academy at this time.
On 17 April 1924, the Academy was transformed into the
Communist Academy
The Communist Academy (Russian: Коммунистическая академия, transliterated ''Kommunisticheskaya akademiya'') was a higher educational establishment and research institute based in Moscow. It included scientific institutes of ...
.
''Bulletin of the Socialist Academy''
From 1922, the Academy published a bulletin ''Вестник Социалистической академии'' (Bulletin of the Socialist Academy). After six issues, the numbering continued under the title ''Вестник Коммунистической академии"'' (''
Bulletin of the Communist Academy'').
References
1918 establishments in Russia
Socialist organizations in Russia
Universities and institutes established in the Soviet Union
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