# Institute of Red Professors

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| native_name            = Институт красной профессуры 
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| caption                = The former building of the Institute of Red Professors, currently the [Diplomatic Academy](/source/Diplomatic_Academy_of_the_Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_of_the_Russian_Federation)<ref>{{cite web |title=Институт Красной профессуры на Крымской площади |url=https://russiainphoto.ru/photos/330563/ |website=Russian Photo |language=ru}}</ref> 
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* [Mikhail Pokrovsky](/source/Mikhail_Pokrovsky) (1921–31) 
* [Pavel Yudin](/source/Pavel_Yudin) (1932–38}
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The '''Institute of Red Professors of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)''' ({{langx|ru|Институ́т кра́сной профессу́ры, ИКП}}) was an institute of graduate-level education in the [Marxist](/source/Marxist) [social sciences](/source/social_sciences) located in the Orthodox Convent of the Passion, [Moscow](/source/Moscow).
==History==
It was founded in February 1921 to address a shortage of Marxist professors but only about 25 percent of its graduates continued an academic career; most rather became functionaries  of the [Communist Party](/source/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union).<ref name=davi/> At first it was under the jurisdiction of the [Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union](/source/Central_Executive_Committee_of_the_Soviet_Union) and later under the Department for Agitation and Propaganda ([Agitprop](/source/Agitprop)).<ref name=bane/> The studies lasted four years and students (nicknamed ''ikapisty'') were required to write research papers, which were often published and represented a significant body of Marxist historical research. Two hundred thirty-six students completed the course between 1924 and 1929.<ref name=bane/> In 1929, there were 69 teachers at the institute, seven of whom were not members of the Communist Party.<ref name=davi/> Its rectors were [Mikhail Pokrovsky](/source/Mikhail_Pokrovsky) (1921–31) and [Pavel Yudin](/source/Pavel_Yudin) (1932–38). The institute was abolished in 1938.<ref name=bote/> The institute was integrated into a system of higher party schools of the [Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union](/source/Central_Committee_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union).

==References==
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<ref name=bane>{{cite book| first=Arup |last=Banerji |title=Writing history in the Soviet Union: making the past work |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NqJS-H-odnYC&pg=PA29 |publisher=Berghahn Books |year=2008 |isbn=978-81-87358-37-4|pages=29–30}}</ref>
<ref name=bote>{{cite book| first=Kees |last=Boterbloem |title=The life and times of Andrei Zhdanov, 1896-1948 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ch7lBy7O4GQC&pg=PA188 |page=188 |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-7735-2666-2}}</ref>
<ref name=davi>{{cite book| first=Michael |last=David-Fox |authorlink=Michael David-Fox|title=Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning Among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929 | url=https://archive.org/details/revolutionofmind00davi | url-access=registration |location=Ithaca |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=1997 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/revolutionofmind00davi/page/133 133], 139}}</ref>

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