KUNMZ

Abbreviation for the Kommunisticheskij universitet natsional’nykh men’shinstv zapada (The Communist University for National Minorities of the West). The KUNMZ was a school of higher education established in Moscow in 1921 to train representatives of the western region of the RSFSR (after 1922, the USSR) for Party and government work. The school also trained students sent to Moscow by foreign Communist parties. It had Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Estonian, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Jewish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Moldavian, Polish, Rumanian, Scandinavian and Yugoslavian sections. The KUNMZ was liquidated in April 1936.