Higher Party School

Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the CPSU

Высшая партийная школа при ЦК КПСС
Type	Public
Active	1918–1991
Postgraduates	150
Location	Moscow , Russia 55°46′38″N 37°35′42″E / 55.77722°N 37.59500°E / 55.77722; 37.59500}
Campus	Urban

Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the CPSU (Russian: Высшая партийная школа при ЦК КПСС) was a higher party-political educational institution in the Soviet Union for the training and retraining of the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Soviet state, and media workers (radio, print, and television), which existed in Moscow from 1939 to 1978.^[1][2] It was merged with the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU. About 10,000 party and government workers graduated from the institution, and more than 14,500 completed retraining courses.^[1]