Central Committee elected by the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

Central Committee elected
by the 13th Congress
Central Committee elected; by the 13th Congress
← 12th 14th →
	The Presidium of the 13th Party Congress
2 June 1924 – 31 December 1925
Officers
General Secretary	Joseph Stalin
Second Secretary	Vyacheslav Molotov
Inner-groups	Politburo: 7 full & 6 candidates; Secretariat: 7 full & 3 candidates; Orgburo: 12 full & 6 candidates
Apparatus
No. of departments	11

The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 13th Congress, and sat from 2 June 1924 until 31 December 1925. The CC 1st Plenary Session renewed the composition of the Politburo, Secretariat and the Organizational Bureau (OB) of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

Keys[]

✡	Indicates that the individual was born into a Jewish family.
♀	Indicates that the individual is female.
✡♀	Indicates that the individual was a woman and born into a Jewish family.
BY	Birth year.
DY	Death year.
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 13th Congress and the 14th 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
1st Plenary Session	—	2 June 1924	1 day
2nd Plenary Session	—	16–20 June 1924	5 days
3rd Plenary Session	—	25–27 October 1924	3 days
—	1st Joint Plenary Session	17 January 1925	1 day
4th Plenary Session	—	17–20 January 1925	4 days
5th Plenary Session	—	23 April 1925	1 day
6th Plenary Session	—	30 April 1925	1 day
7th Plenary Session	—	3–10 October 1925	8 days
8th Plenary Session	—	12–14 November 1925	3 days
9th Plenary Session	—	15 December 1925	1 day

Apparatus[]

Individuals employed by Central Committee's bureaus, departments and newspapers made up the apparatus between the 13th Congress and the 14th 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
Institutions	Name Cyrillic	BY	DY	Took office	Left office	Tenure	Ethnicity
Agitation and Propaganda Department	Sergei Syrtsov Сергей Сырцов	1893	1937	2 June 1924	31 December 1925	1 year and 212 days	Russian
Central Asian Bureau	Isaak Zelensky Исаак Зеленский	1890	1937	2 June 1924	31 December 1925	1 year and 212 days	Russian✡
Chief Administrator	Пётр Гузаков	1889	1944	2 June 1924	31 December 1925	1 year and 212 days	Russian
Far Eastern Bureau	Nikolai Kubiak Николай Кубяк	1881	1937	2 June 1924	31 December 1925	1 year and 212 days	Russian
Finance Department	П. Н. Иванов	?	?	2 June 1924	31 December 1925	1 year and 212 days	Russian
Information Department	Vilhelm Knorin Вильгельм Кнорин	1890	1939	2 June 1924	8 July 1925	1 year and 36 days	Latvian
Information Department	Лев Рошаль	1896	1940	8 July 1925	31 December 1925	176 days	Belarusian
Lenin Institute	Lev Kamenev Лев Ка́менев	1883	1936	2 June 1924	31 December 1925	1 year and 212 days	Russian
Office of the Secretariat	Lev Mekhlis Лев Мехлис	1889	1953	November 1924	31 December 1925	1 year and 31 days	Ukrainian✡
Organizational-Distribution Department	Lazar Kaganovich Лазарь Каганович	1893	1991	2 June 1924	27 October 1924	147 days	Russian✡
Organizational-Distribution Department	Nikolay Antipov Николай Антипов	1894	1938	27 October 1924	27 July 1925	273 days	Russian
Organizational-Distribution Department	Konstantin Gey Константин Гей	1896	1939	27 July 1925	31 December 1925	157 days	Russian ^{[note 1]}
Party History Department	Mikhail Olminsky Михаил Ольминский	1863	1933	2 June 1924	31 December 1924	212 days	Russian
Party History Department	Семён Канатчиков	1879	1937	1 January 1925	31 December 1925	364 days	Russian
Press Department	Семён Канатчиков	1879	1937	2 June 1924	27 October 1924	147 days	Russian
Press Department	Juozas Vareikis Иосиф Варейкис	1894	1938	27 October 1924	31 December 1925	1 year and 65 days	Lithuanian
Provisional Byelorussian Bureau	Aleksandr Osatkin Александр Асаткин	1885	1937	2 June 1924	31 December 1925	1 year and 212 days	Russian
Siberian Bureau	Stanislav Kosior Станислав Косиор	1889	1939	2 June 1924	27 October 1924	147 days	Polish
South-East Bureau	Anastas Mikoyan Анастас Микоян	1895	1978	2 June 1924	27 October 1924	147 days	Armenian

Members[]

Full[]

Name Cyrillic	BY	DY	Left office	Tenure	Ethnicity	Portrait	First post held (during term)	CIM
Andrey Andreyev Андрей Андреев	1895	1971	31 December 1925	1 year and 214 days	Russian		Chairman, Central Committee of the Union of Railway Workers	SC, OB
Nikolay Antipov Николай Антипов	1894	1938	31 December 1925	1 year and 214 days	Russian	—	First Secretary, Moscow Regional Committee	CSC, COB
Andrei Bubnov Андрей Бубнов	1884	1938	31 December 1925	1 year and 214 days	Russian		Head, Political Directorate of the Red Army	SC, OB
Nikolai Bukharin Никола́й Буха́рин	1888	1938	31 December 1925	1 year and 214 days	Russian		Editor-in-chief, Pravda	PB
Vlas Chubar Влас Чубар	1891	1939	31 December 1925	1 year and 214 days	Ukrainian		Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR	—
Alexander Dogadov Александр Догадов	1888	1937	31 December 1925	1 year and 214 days	Russian	—	Secretary, Presidium of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions Member, Presidium of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions	OB
Felix Dzerzhinsky Фе́ликс Дзержи́нский	1877	1926	31 December 1925	1 year and 214 days	Polish		Chairman, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy Chairman, Joint State Political Directorate	CPB, COB
Grigory Yevdokimov Григорий Евдокимов	1884	1936	31 December 1925	1 year and 214 days	Russian		Chairman, Leningrad Council of Trade Unions	—
Mikhail Frunze Михаил Фрунзе	1885	1925	31 October 1925	1 year and 153 days	Moldovan		Chairman, Revolutionary Military Council People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs	CPB, COB
Lazar Kaganovich Лазарь Каганович	1893	1991	31 December 1925	1 year and 214 days	Russian✡		Head, Organizational-Distribution Department	SC, OB
Mikhail Kalinin Михаил Калинин	1875	1946	31 December 1925	1 year and 214 days	Russian		Chairman, Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets Member, Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets	CPB, OB
Lev Kamenev Лев Ка́менев	1883	1936	31 December 1925	1 year and 214 days	Russian		Chairman, Executive Committee of the Moscow Regional Soviet	PB
Моисей Харитонов	1887	1938	31 December 1925	1 year and 214 days	Russian WIKI

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Central Committee elected by the 13th Congress
← 12th 14th →
The Presidium of the 13th Party Congress
2 June 1924 – 31 December 1925
Officers
General Secretary	Joseph Stalin
Second Secretary	Vyacheslav Molotov
Inner-groups	Politburo: 7 full & 6 candidates Secretariat: 7 full & 3 candidates Orgburo: 12 full & 6 candidates
Apparatus
No. of departments	11