 Communist University of the National Minorities of the West

The Communist University of the National Minorities of the West (KUNMZ - "Kommunistichesky Universitet Natsionalnykh Menshinstv Zapada"; КУНМЗ - Коммунистический университет национальных меньшинств Запада), was created by a 28 November 1921 decree of the Council of People's Commissars and charged with training party cadres from the western regions of Russia and the Volga Germans.In 1929-1930, it began to admit representatives of the communist parties of the Central European, Scandinavian and Balkan countries, as well as Italy.