Central Committee elected by the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

Central Committee elected
by the 7th Congress
Central Committee elected; by the 7th Congress
← 6th 8th →
8 March 1918 – 23 March 1919
Executive Secretary	Yakov Sverdlov (1918–1919); Elena Stasova (1919)
Inner-groups	Politburo: 5 full & 2 candidates; Secretariat: 2 members; Orgburo: 3 members

The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 7th Congress, and sat from 8 March 1918 until 23 March 1919. The CC 1st Plenary Session renewed the composition of the , and the Organizational Bureau (OB) of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

Keys[]

	Indicates that the individual is female.
BY	Birth year.
DY	Death year.
PM	Party membership (when the individual joined the party).
B	Bureau member.
SC	Secretariat member.
OB	Orgburo member.
B(C)	The "(C)" refers to "Candidate member"

Meetings[]

Session of the Central Committee (8 March 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (15 March 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (30 March 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (31 March 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (31 March 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (4 April 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (7 April 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (26 April 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (3 May 1918)
Emergency session of the Central Committee (6 May 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (10 May 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (13 May 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (18 May 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (19 May 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (26 June 1918)

Session of the Central Committee (29 July 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (14 September 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (16 September 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (2 October 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (22 October 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (25 October 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (26 October 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (25 December 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (30 December 1918)
Session of the Central Committee (16 January 1919)
Session of the Central Committee (4 February 1919)
Session of the Central Committee (14 March 1919)
Evening session of the Central Committee (16 March 1919)
Session of the Central Committee (17 March 1919)

Members[]

Full[]

Name Cyrillic	BY	DY	PM	Ethnicity	First post held (during term)	CIM
Nikolai Bukharin Никола́й Буха́рин	1888	1938	1906	Russian	Editor-in-chief, Pravda	—
Felix Dzerzhinsky Фе́ликс Дзержи́нский	1877	1926	1906	Polish	Chairman, All-Russian Emergency Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage	—
Nikolay Krestinsky Никола́й Крести́нский	1883	1938	1901	Russian	People's Commissar for Finance of the Russian SFSR First Deputy Commissioner, State Bank of the Russian SFSR	OB
Mikhail Lashevich Александр Криницкий	1884	1937	1901	Russian-Jewish	Member, Petrograd Bureau	—
Vladimir Lenin Владимир Ленин	1870	1924	1898	Russian	Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR	B
Vasily Schmidt Сергей Чуцкаев	1886	1938	1905	Russian-German	Secretary, All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions Member, Presidium of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions	—
"Artyom" Fyodor Sergeyev Фёдор Серге́ев	1895	1921	1914	Russian	Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Donetsk-Krivoi Rog Republic, People's Secretary, Trade and Industry of the Soviet Ukraine	—
Ivar Smilga Ивар Смилга	1892	1938	1907	Latvian	Commissioner, Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR in Finland	—
Grigori Sokolnikov Григорий Сокольников	1888	1939	1905	Ukrainian-Jewish	Commissioner, State Bank of the Russian SFSR	B
Joseph Stalin Ио́сиф Ста́лин	1878	1953	1898	Georgian	People's Commissar for Nationalities of the Russian SFSR	B(C)
Elena Stasova Еле́на Ста́сова	1873	1966	1898	Russian	—	B, SC
Yakov Sverdlov Сергей Гусев	1885	1919	1901	Russian-Jewish	Chairman, Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets Chairman, Secretariat	B, SC, OB
Leon Trotsky Лев Тро́цкий	1879	1940	1917	Russian	People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Russian SFSR	B(C)
Mikhail Vladimirsky Михаи́л Влади́мирский	1874	1951	1898	Russian	Member, Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets	OB
Grigory Zinoviev Григо́рий Зино́вьев	1883	1936	1901	Russian-Jewish	Chairman, Executive Committee of the Petrograd Regional Soviet	—

Candidates[]

Name Cyrillic	BY	DY	PM	Ethnicity	First post held (during term)
Jan Antonovich Berzin Ян Антонович Берзин	1881	1938	1902	Latvian	Member, Central Committee of the Social-Democracy of the Latvian Territory
Adolph Joffe Владимир Милютин	1883	1927	1910	Karaite	Head, Negotiations Team at Bresk
Aleksei Kiselyov Алексей Киселёв	1879	1937	1898	Russian	Member, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the Russian SFSR
Georgy Oppokov Гео́ргий Оппо́ков	1888	1938	1903	Russian	Member, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the Russian SFSR
Grigory Petrovsky Григо́рій Петро́вський	1878	1958	1898	Ukrainian	People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the Russian SFSR
Pyotr Stuchka Пётр Сту́чка	1865	1932	1906	Latvian	People's Commissar for Justice of the Russian SFSR
Moisei Uritsky Моисей Урицкий	1873	1918	1917	Russian-Jewish	Chairman, Petrograd Emergency Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage
Alexander Shliapnikov Алекса́ндр Шля́пников	1885	1937	1901	Russian	People's Commissar for Labor

References[]

General[]

Plenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity (by clicking on the individual names on "The Central Committee elected by the VIIth Congress of the RCP (B) 03.08.1918 members" reference), the Central Committee full- and candidate membership, Bureau 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 VII-м съездом РКП(б) 8.3.1918, член��" [The Central Committee elected by the VIIth Congress of the RCP (B) 03.08.1918 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.

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