Central Committee elected by the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Central Committee elected by the 10th Congress | |
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![]() Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Kliment Voroshilov standing with delegates to the 10th Party Congress | |
16 March 1921 – 2 April 1922 | |
Responsible Secretary | Vyacheslav Molotov |
Inner-groups | Politburo: 7 full & 3 candidates Secretariat: 3 members Orgburo: 7 full & 3 candidates |
The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 10th Congress, and sat from 16 March 1921 until 2 April 1922. The CC 1st Plenary Session renewed the composition of the Politburo, Secretariat and the Organizational Bureau (OB) of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
Keys[]
BY | Birth year. |
DY | Death year. |
PM | Party membership (when the individual joined the party). |
PB | Politburo member. |
SC | Secretariat member. |
OB | Orgburo member. |
CPB, CSC, COB | The first "C" in these initials refers to "Candidate member" |
Plenums[]
The CC was not a permanent institution. It convened plenary sessions, of which nine CC plenary sessions and one joint CC–Central Control Commission (CCC) plenary sessions were held between the 10th Congress and the 11th Congress. When the CC was not in session, decision-making powers were transferred to inner bodies of the CC itself; the Politburo, Secretariat and Orgburo (none of these bodies were permanent either, but convened several times a months).[1]
Plenum (CC) |
Joint plenum (CC–CCC) |
Start–end | Length |
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1st Plenary Session | —
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16 March 1921 | 1 day |
2nd Plenary Session | —
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16–18 May 1921 | 3 days |
3rd Plenary Session | —
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28 May 1921 | 1 day |
4th Plenary Session | —
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8 August 1921 | 1 day |
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1st Joint Plenary Session | 9 August 1921 | 1 day |
5th Plenary Session | —
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9 August 1921 | 1 day |
6th Plenary Session | —
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10 August 1921 | 1 day |
7th Plenary Session | —
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18 December 1921 | 1 day |
8th Plenary Session | —
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28 December 1921 | 1 day |
9th Plenary Session | —
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25 March 1922 | 1 day |
Apparatus[]
Individuals employed by Central Committee's bureaus, departments and newspapers made up the apparatus between the 10th Congress and the 11th Congress.[2] The bureaus and departments were supervised by the Secretariat, and each secretary (member of the Secretariat) supervised a specific department.[3] The leaders of departments were officially referred to as Heads, while the titles of bureau leaders varied between chairman, first secretary and secretary.[4]
Institutions | Head | Took office | Left office | Tenure | Ethnicity | |||
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Name Cyrillic |
BY | DY | PM | |||||
Accounting and Distribution Department | Sergey Syrtsov Серге́й Сырцо́в |
1893 | 1937 | 1913 | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Russian |
Agitation and Propaganda Department | Lev Sosnovsky Лев Сосновский |
1886 | 1937 | 1904 | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Russian |
Caucasian Bureau | Grigol Ordzhonikidze Григо́рий Орджоники́дзе |
1886 | 1937 | 1903 | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Georgian |
Chief Administrator | Павел Горбунов |
1885 | 1937 | 1910 | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Russian |
Far Eastern Bureau | Пётр Анохин |
1891 | 1922 | 1908 | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Russian |
Finance Department | —
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Office of the Secretariat | Н. И. Смирнов |
? | ? | ? | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Russian |
Organizational-Work Department | Pyotr Zalutsky Петро Залуцький |
1887 | 1937 | 1907 | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Russian |
Party History Department | Mikhail Olminsky Михаил Ольминский |
1863 | 1933 | 1898 | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Russian |
Siberian Bureau | Ivan Smirnov Иван Смирнов |
1881 | 1936 | 1899 | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Russian |
South-East Bureau | Anastas Mikoyan Анастас Микоян |
1895 | 1978 | 1915 | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Armenian |
Statistical Department | Stanislav Strumilin Станисла́в Струми́лин |
1877 | 1974 | 1923 | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Russian |
Turkestan Bureau | Georgy Safarov Георгий Сафаров |
1891 | 1942 | 1908 | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Russian |
Ural Bureau | Иван Тунтул |
1892 | 1938 | 1907 | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Latvian |
Ural Industrial Bureau | Daniil Sulimov Даниил Сулимов |
1890 | 1937 | 1905 | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Russian |
Members[]
Full[]
Name Cyrillic |
BY | DY | PM | Ethnicity | Portrait | First post held (during term) |
CIM |
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Nikolai Bukharin Никола́й Буха́рин |
1888 | 1938 | 1906 | Russian | Editor-in-chief, Pravda | CPB | |
Felix Dzerzhinsky Фе́ликс Дзержи́нский |
1877 | 1926 | 1906 | Polish | People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the Russian SFSR Chairman, All-Russian Emergency Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage |
OB | |
Mikhail Frunze Михаил Фрунзе |
1885 | 1925 | 1904 | Russian Moldovan | ![]() |
Commander, Ukrainian Military District | —
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Mikhail Kalinin Михаил Калинин |
1875 | 1946 | 1898 | Russian | ![]() |
Chairman, Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets | CPB, OB |
Lev Kamenev Лев Ка́менев |
1883 | 1936 | 1901 | Russian | ![]() |
Chairman, Executive Committee of the Moscow Regional Soviet | PB |
Nikolay Komarov Николай Комаров |
1886 | 1937 | 1909 | Russian | —
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Chairman, Petrograd Emergency Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage | OB |
Иван Кутузов |
1885 | 1937 | 1906 | Russian | —
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Chairman, Central Committee of the Union of Textile Workers | COB |
Vladimir Lenin Владимир Ленин |
1870 | 1924 | 1898 | Russian | ![]() |
Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR Chairman, Council of Labor and Defense of the Russian SFSR |
PB |
Василий Михайлов |
1894 | 1937 | 1915 | Russian | —
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Secretary, Moscow Union of Printers | SC, OB |
Vyacheslav Molotov Вячеслав Молотов |
1890 | 1986 | 1906 | Russian | ![]() |
Responsible Secretary, Central Committee First Secretary, Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine |
CPB, SC, OB |
Grigol Ordzhonikidze Григо́рий Орджоники́дзе |
1886 | 1937 | 1903 | Georgian | Chairman, Caucasian Bureau | —
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Grigory Petrovsky Григо́рій Петро́вський |
1878 | 1958 | 1898 | Ukrainian | ![]() |
Chairman, Central Executive Committee of the All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets | —
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Karl Radek Карл Радек |
1885 | 1939 | 1903 |
Lithuanian Jewish |
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Secretary, Executive Committee of the Communist International Chairman, Executive Committee of the Petrograd Regional Soviet |
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Christian Rakovsky Христиан Раковский |
1873 | 1941 | 1917 | Bulgarian | ![]() |
Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR | —
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Jānis Rudzutaks Ян Рудзутак |
1887 | 1938 | 1905 | Latvian | ![]() |
General Secretary, International Trade Union Council | OB |
Alexei Rykov Алексей Рыков |
1881 | 1938 | 1899 | Russian | ![]() |
Chairman, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the Russian SFSR Member, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the Russian SFSR |
OB |
"Artyom" Fyodor Sergeyev Фёдор Серге́ев |
1895 | 1921 | 1914 | Russian | Chairman, Central Committee of the All-Russian Union of Miners | —
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Alexander Shliapnikov Алекса́ндр Шля́пников |
1885 | 1937 | 1901 | Russian | ![]() |
Chairman, Central Committee of the All-Russian Union of Metalworkers | —
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Joseph Stalin Ио́сиф Ста́лин |
1878 | 1953 | 1898 | Georgian | ![]() |
People's Commissar for Nationalities Chairman, Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate |
PB, OB |
Mikhail Tomsky Михаил Томский |
1880 | 1936 | 1904 | Russian | ![]() |
Chairman, All-Russian Council of Trade Unions Member, Presidium of the All-Russian Council of Trade Unions |
OB |
Leon Trotsky Лев Тро́цкий |
1879 | 1940 | 1917 | Russian Jewish | ![]() |
People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the Russian SFSR Chairman, Revolutionary Military Council of the Russian SFSR Member, Executive Committee of the Communist International |
PB |
Иван Тунтул |
1892 | 1938 | 1907 | Latvian | —
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Secretary, Ural Bureau | COB |
Kliment Voroshilov Климент Ворошилов |
1881 | 1969 | 1903 | Russian | ![]() |
Member, Revolutionary Military Council Officer in 1st Cavalry Army |
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Yemelyan Yaroslavsky Емельян Ярославский |
1878 | 1943 | 1898 | Russian Jewish | ![]() |
Member, Siberian Bureau | SC, OB |
Grigory Zinoviev Григо́рий Зино́вьев |
1883 | 1936 | 1901 | Russian Jewish | ![]() |
Chairman, Executive Committee of the Communist International Chairman, Executive Committee of the Petrograd Regional Soviet |
PB |
Candidates[]
Name Cyrillic |
BY | DY | PM | Ethnicity | Portrait | First post held (during term) |
CIM |
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Vlas Chubar Влас Чубар |
1891 | 1939 | 1907 | Ukrainian | ![]() |
Chairman, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the Ukrainian SSR Member, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the Ukrainian SSR |
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Sergey Gusev Сергей Гусев |
1874 | 1933 | 1898 | Russian Jewish | ![]() |
Head, Political Directorate of the Revolutionary Military Council | —
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Sergey Kirov Серге́й Ки́ров |
1886 | 1934 | 1904 | Russian | ![]() |
Member, Caucasian Bureau | —
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Aleksei Kiselyov Алексей Киселёв |
1879 | 1937 | 1898 | Russian | ![]() |
Chairman, Permanent Commission of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR | —
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Valerian Kuybyshev Валериан Куйбышев |
1888 | 1935 | 1904 | Russian | ![]() |
Member, Presidium of the All-Russian Council of Trade Unions | —
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Vladimir Milyutin Владимир Милютин |
1884 | 1937 | 1910 | Russian | Deputy Chairman, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the Russian SFSR Member, Presidium of the Russian SFSR |
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Valerian Osinsky Валериан Оболенский |
1887 | 1938 | 1907 | Russian | —
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People's Commissar for Agriculture of the Russian SFSR | —
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Georgy Safarov Георгий Сафаров |
1891 | 1942 | 1908 | Russian | ![]() |
Chairman, Turkestan Bureau | —
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Vasily Schmidt Василий Шмидт |
1886 | 1938 | 1905 | Russian | ![]() |
Member, Presidium of the All-Russian Council of Trade Unions | COB |
Ivan Smirnov Иван Смирнов |
1881 | 1936 | 1899 | Russian | ![]() |
Chairman, Siberian Bureau | —
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Daniil Sulimov Даниил Сулимов |
1890 | 1937 | 1905 | Russian | ![]() |
Chairman, Ural Industrial Bureau | —
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Nikolai Uglanov Николай Угланов |
1886 | 1937 | 1907 | Russian | —
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First Secretary, Petrograd Regional Committee | —
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Pyotr Zalutsky Петро Залуцький |
1887 | 1937 | 1907 | Russian | ![]() |
Secretary, Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets | COB |
Isaak Zelensky Исаак Зеленский |
1890 | 1937 | 1906 | Russian Jewish | —
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Member, Collegium of the People's Commissariat for Food of the Russian SFSR | —
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References[]
General[]
Plenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity (by clicking on the individual names on "The Central Committee, elected X th Congress of the RCP (B) 16/3/1921 members" reference), the Central Committee full- and candidate membership, Politburo membership, Secretariat membership and Orgburo membership were taken from these sources:
- Staff writer. "Съезды, конференции, пленумы и заседания РСДРП – РСДРП(б) – РКП(б) – ВКП(б) – КПСС" [Congresses, conferences, plenary meetings and meetings of the RSDLP – RSDLP (b) – RCP (b) – AUCP (b) – CPSU] (in Russian). knowbysight.info. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
- Staff writer. "Персональный состав Центрального комитета РСДРП – РСДРП(б) – РКП(б) – ВКП(б) – КПСС" [Membership of the Central Committee of the RSDLP – RSDLP (b) – RCP (b) – AUCP (b) – CPSU] (in Russian). knowbysight.info. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
- Staff writer. "Центральный Комитет, избранный X-м съездом РКП(б) 16.3.1921, члены" [The Central Committee, elected X th Congress of the RCP (B) 16/3/1921 members] (in Russian). knowbysight.info. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
- Staff writer (19 June 2008). "ЕВРЕИ И ВЛАСТЬ В РОССИИ (1917-1924 гг.)" [Jews and Power in Russia (1917–1924 biennum)] (in Russian). LDN - приватное собрание книг. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
- Staff writer. "Узкий состав ЦК РСДРП(б) – Политическое бюро ЦК РСДРП(б)—Бюро ЦК РСДРП(б) – РКП(б)—Политическое бюро ЦК РКП(б) – ВКП(б)—Президиум – Политическое бюро ЦК КПСС" [The narrow composition of the RSDLP (b)—Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (B)—The Bureau of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (b) – RCP (B)—Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) – AUCP (b)—the Presidium – Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU] (in Russian). Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- Staff writer. "Секретариат ЦК РСДРП - РКП(б) - ВКП(б) - КПСС" [Secretariat of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (b) – RCP (b) – AUCP (b) – CPSU] (in Russian). Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- Staff writer. "Организационное бюро РКП(б) - ВКП(б)" [Organizational Bureau of the RCP (b) – AUCP (b)] (in Russian). Retrieved 21 June 2015.
Bibliography[]
- Fainsod, Merle; Hough, Jerry F. (1979). How the Soviet Union is Governed. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674410305.
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1984). "Chapter 3: Statute of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union". In Simons, Williams; White, Stephens (eds.). The Party Statutes of the Communist World. Law in Eastern Europe. Brill Publishers. pp. 413–435. ISBN 9024729750.
Sources[]
- ^ Simons & White 1984, pp. 423–425.
- ^ Fainsod & Hough 1979, p. 410.
- ^ Fainsod & Hough 1979, pp. 410–411 & 417–419.
- ^ Fainsod & Hough 1979, pp. 417–419.
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