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.[1] The first rector of the university was the Polish communist Julian Marchlewski, which the university was later named after.