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Situated in Moscow and shrouded in secrecy, the International Lenin School ( ILS ) was founded in 1926 as an instrument for the " Bolshevisation " of the Communist International ( Comintern ) and its national sections, following the resolutions of the fifth Congress of the Comintern.

Between 1926 and 1938 the school provided up to 3, 000 communists with such a training.

Most of them were from European and American communist parties, with another Comintern-affiliated institution, the Communist University of the Toilers of the East, catering for the majority of students from colonial countries.

The students were taught courses in working-class history, the political economy of imperialism, Marxist theory, and the experience of proletarian dictatorship – consolidated by practical work in a Soviet economic enterprise.

In the earlier part of the school ’ s operation they also became members of the Soviet communist party.