Советская Россия

The article is devoted to the history of creation and activity, and also distinctive features of the University for Workers of China, existing in Moscow in 1925–1930. The political, social, educational, age structure of its students is analyzed. The wide range of the sources is involved, some archival materials are introduced in a scientific turn for the first time.

The author analyzes a short Saratov period of the course of life of a well-known German social democrat Ernst Reuter. According to the directive of the RSFSR Council of Peoples Commissars Chairman V. I. Lenin and Peoples Commissar on Nationalities J. V Stalin a German war prisoner and communist Ernst Reuter was sent to Saratov Volga Region in April 1918 where he became the leader of the Volga Region Commissariat on the Germans.