TRAINING OF FOREIGN COMMUNISTS IN CPSU AND CCP ESTABLISHMENTS

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 1998
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Training of Foreign Communists in CPSU and CCP Establishments
1. An accelerated CPSU program for the training of
foreign Communists within the Soviet Union was evidently
inaugurated about 1956. On a small scale, some foreign
Communists have been enrolled in CPSU establishments since
the and of the Comintern. But not until 1956, and more
especially 1957, was there evidence that such training was
taking place in increasing numbers and as papt
of
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obviously a new and broad program. By 1958 sevcra s:f fx,,FN
were known to be sending trainees to the USSR each year.#-
t t :in many yearer. There .096' firm evidence that
the;,- majority of these foreign Corr unists were being
trained in the CPSU's Higher Party School in Moscow, and that
the CPSU's Foreign Section (or International Department) was
administratively responsible for their training.
2. One of the foreign Communists yho,,co pleted in rnic-
a one-year course at the Higher Party School reported
the following: of the approximately 1500 students at the
school only about 700 - or less than half - were Russians.
The foreign students came from all over, the world and included
Germans, Scandinavians, Splyds, Austrians, Latin Americans
,
Frenchmen, Italians, Indians and many A iatics. China, however,
sent no students to this school. Other Bloc arties were represented.
3. The exception of China suggests that a special
establishment may exist for CCP trainees sent to the USSR.
The existence of a separate school for students from one
Communist Party would not be a new development, although it
is probably rare. During 1953-1957, a special CPSU school,
under the Higher Party School, catered exclusively to members
of the illegal Brazilian Communist Partyt. During this period
,
three course given at this separate school. r,
13;~ n~ he first course, 42 in the second and
51 in the third. }
4. An Italian Commuhis arty document,a'(ed November 19576
has revealed iistructionp, oncerning the diction of candidate
aiuuentis for attendance at the CPSSU's her Party School. The
urgency of making such selections wa*-- tressed and also that
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"maximum discretion"--ma
st be exercised. All foreign Communist
Parties exercise "discretion" in sending trainees to the Soviet
Union and for this reason `kiowledge of tlar grams of individual
data his been obtained in the case of saveralrties,"'
maltZ t tW,,this specific knowledge represents only a small
part of a broad program.,,
to the Higher party School, the exact numbed bei- "sent is not
known. Qn 4he he + hand, it,-:isknow- lie Norwegian Party
sent 6-8 members in 1958 to attend a one-year course in the
Soviet Union. The Danish Party is reliably reported to have had
about 15 members in a CPSU training course in 1958. The Austrian
Party had 12 members graduate from the Higher Party School in 1958.
The West German Party had about 6 members in this course and the
Indian Party 2. The Finnish Party is believed to have sent at
least 5 members to the 1957-1958 course.!, Both the Panamanian and
Guatemalan Parties have at least 1 member in the Higher Party
School at the present time, and the Honduran Party may have sent 1
member in 1958. Reports reflect that both the Canadian Party and
the Ceylon Party anticipated sending 1 member in 1958.
The length of the CPSU training courses takenn y the
forergn Communist students eftff2y varies. A one/c arse at the
Higher Party School is evidently the most common, but"
1a aka--year courses are also kna wnA In some cases, such as that of the
Italian Party, a stay ofars is scheduled. Short-term courses,
for months. have also been indicated, but these do not appear
to be very common. The curriculum for foreign Communists at the
Higher Party School includes: History of the CPSU; Philosophy,
Dialectical and Historical Materialism;; Political Economy; History
of the International Workers Movement; Soviet Foreign Policy; Law;
and theme Russian language.
A CCP program for training foreign Communists was also
being expanded by 1957? In late 1957, it was reliably reported
that Peking had started a training school which would train each
year 16 members of the Australian Communist Party. In November 1957,
the first group of 16 were reportedly being selected. In 1957, the
CCP also invited several Latin American' Communist Aarties to send
trainees to a special school which would be in operation during the
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summer of 1958? While the Chinese expected a total of 21
students to come from Ecuador, Honduras,', Salvador, Costa
Rica, Panama, Bolivia, and Colombia, only 11 students
actually managed to arrive and some of these missed part of
the course. Taking the entire course were 3 Ecuadorans, 3
Costa Ricans and 1 Colombian. Arriving 'somewhat later were
3 S.lvadorans; 1 Venezuelan arrived when the course was almost
over. The Chinese indicated that during! subsequent courses
(evidently to be held each year) all Latin American countries
would be represented. During 1958, about 12 Japanese trainees
and a few Africans and Hindus were also reported in a CCP
training establishment.
The specia course for Latin American Communists was
# nth period. The curriculum emphasized
schuled for a 60
classes in the history of the CCP, experiences of the CCP in
construction of the Party, and the armed struggle of the :masses.
. It is probable that CCP training is being given on a
larger scale than is indicated in the specific examples listed
above. In the period 1953-1957, about 2,000 Japanese Communists
were reliably reported to have attended a special and separate
CCP school (paralleling the ease of the' special CPSU school for
rnmmunists)
25X1 X6 eported that there was also in China The Racial Academy
in which about 700 foreign Communists were enrolled. While many 25X1 X6
came from Bloc countries, this source states that there were also
students from Laos, Malaya, Indonesia, Egypt, Great Britain and
South America.
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