모스크바 동방노력자공산대학의 조선학부와 대학원의 편제와 운영, 1921-1938

Abstract

In 1921 the Bolshevik government established the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in Moscow with the goal of fostering leaders of the socialist revolutionary movement among the minority living both in the peripheries of Soviet Russia and in Asian colonies abroad. During the 1920s~30s, about 200 Korean communists and nationalists studied at the university. Many of them continued to carry out their anti-Japanese independent and communist movements in Korea, as well as in the Primorsk region after their graduation from the university. This implies that the university contributed to some extent to the development of the national liberation movement of Korea by providing communist and nationalist activists. In addition, the university enhanced its role of a research institute that carried out Oriental studies as it established a graduate program in 1927. Despite its contributions to the training of communist activists and experts in Oriental studies, in 1938 the Stalin regime closed the university, where foreign students and ethnic minorities occupied the majority. The regime’s strong suspicion of those foreign students and teachers as foreign spies, as well as its termination of affirmative action for ethnic minorities in the late 1930s, certainly affected the closure of the university.