The Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Russian State Social University" (RGSU) is a higher education institution engaged in educational activities in the field of social sciences.
The predecessors of the RSSU were the Y. M. Sverdlov Communist University (established in 1919) and the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) (1939), on the basis of which the Russian State Social University was established in the 1990s.In 1978, the Moscow Higher Party School was established.
In 1990, the Institute of Socio-Political Problems of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR was transformed into the Institute of Socio-Political Problems of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR.