Central Committee elected by the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Central Committee elected by the 8th Congress | |
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23 March 1919 – 5 April 1920 | |
Executive Secretary | Elena Stasova (1919) Nikolay Krestinsky (1919) |
Inner-groups | Politburo: 6 full & 3 candidates Secretariat: 3 members Orgburo: 9 full & 1 candidates |
The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 8th Congress, and sat from 23 March 1919 until 5 April 1920. The CC 1st Plenary Session renewed the composition of the Politburo, Secretariat and the Organizational Bureau (OB) of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
Keys[]
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Indicates that the individual is female. |
BY | Birth year. |
DY | Death year. |
PM | Party membership (when the individual joined the party). |
PB | Politburo member. |
SC | Secretariat member. |
OB | Orgburo member. |
PB(C), SC(C), OB(C) | The "(C)" in these initials refers to "Candidate member" |
Plenums[]
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Members[]
Full[]
Name Cyrillic |
BY | DY | PM | Ethnicity | Portrait | First post held (during term) |
CIM |
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Alexander Beloborodov Александр Белобородов |
1891 | 1938 | 1907 | Russian | Chairman, Executive Committee of the Vyatsk Regional Soviet | OB | |
Nikolai Bukharin Никола́й Буха́рин |
1888 | 1938 | 1906 | Russian | Editor-in-chief, Pravda | PB(C) | |
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 | |
Grigory Yevdokimov Григорий Евдокимов |
1884 | 1936 | 1903 | Russian | ![]() |
Commissioner of Industry, Provincial Union of Communes | —
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Mikhail Kalinin Михаил Калинин |
1875 | 1946 | 1898 | Russian | ![]() |
Member, Board of the People's Commissariat for Food of the Russian SFSR | PB(C), OB |
Lev Kamenev Лев Ка́менев |
1883 | 1936 | 1901 | Russian | ![]() |
Chairman, Executive Committee of the Moscow Regional Soviet | PB, OB |
Nikolay Krestinsky Никола́й Крести́нский |
1883 | 1938 | 1901 | Russian | ![]() |
People's Commissar for Finance of the Russian SFSR | PB, SC, OB |
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 |
Matvei Muranov Матвей Муранов |
1873 | 1959 | 1904 | Ukrainian | ![]() |
Instructor to the Central Committee | OB(C) |
Karl Radek Карл Радек |
1885 | 1939 | 1903 | Lithuanian | ![]() |
Head, Press Department of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR | —
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Christian Rakovsky Христиан Раковский |
1873 | 1941 | 1917 | Bulgarian | ![]() |
Chairman, Provisional Workers' and Peasants' Government of Ukraine | OB |
Leonid Serebryakov Леонид Серебряков |
1890 | 1937 | 1905 | Russian | ![]() |
Member, Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Moscow Regional Soviet | OB |
Ivar Smilga Ивар Смилга |
1892 | 1938 | 1907 | Latvian | ![]() |
Member, Revolutionary Military Council of the Eastern Front | —
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Joseph Stalin Ио́сиф Ста́лин |
1878 | 1953 | 1898 | Georgian | ![]() |
People's Commissar for Nationalities | PB, OB |
Elena Stasova Еле́на Ста́сова |
1873 | 1966 | 1898 | Russian![]() |
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Chair, Secretariat | PB, SC, OB |
Pēteris Stučka Пётр Сту́чка |
1865 | 1932 | 1906 | Latvian | ![]() |
Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Latvian SSR | —
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Mikhail Tomsky Михаил Томский |
1880 | 1936 | 1904 | Russian | ![]() |
Chairman, All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions Member, Presidium of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions |
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Leon Trotsky Лев Тро́цкий |
1879 | 1940 | 1917 | Russian | People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs Chairman, Revolutionary Military Council |
PB, OB | |
Grigory Zinoviev Григо́рий Зино́вьев |
1883 | 1936 | 1901 | Russian | ![]() |
Chairman, Executive Committee of the Petrograd Regional Soviet Chairman, Executive Committee of the Petrograd City Soviet |
PB(C) |
Candidates[]
Name Cyrillic |
BY | DY | PM | Ethnicity | Portrait | First post held (during term) |
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Andrei Bubnov Андрей Бубнов |
1884 | 1938 | 1903 | Russian | ![]() |
Chairman, Executive Committee of the Kiev Regional Soviet |
Jūlijs Daniševskis Владимир Милютин |
1884 | 1937 | 1906 | Latvian | ![]() |
Deputy Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Latvian SSR |
Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas Винцас Мицкявичюс-Капсукас |
1880 | 1935 | 1906 | Lithuanian | ![]() |
Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic |
Vasily Schmidt Василий Шмидт |
1886 | 1938 | 1905 | Russian | ![]() |
Member, Presidium of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions |
"Artyom" Fyodor Sergeyev Фёдор Серге́ев |
1895 | 1921 | 1914 | Russian | Deputy Chairman, Provisional Workers' and Peasants' Government of Ukraine | |
Ivan Smirnov Иван Смирнов |
1881 | 1936 | 1899 | Russian | ![]() |
Member, Siberian Bureau |
Mikhail Vladimirsky Михаи́л Влади́мирский |
1874 | 1951 | 1898 | Russian | ![]() |
Chairman, Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets |
Yemelyan Yaroslavsky Емельян Ярославский |
1878 | 1943 | 1898 | Russian | ![]() |
Party Commissioner responsible for Red Army Mobilization |
References[]
General[]
Plenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity (by clicking on the individual names on "The Central Committee, elected VIIIth Congress of the RCP (B) 23/3/1919 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, плену��ы 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 VIII-м съездом РКП(б) 23.3.1919, члены" [The Central Committee, elected VIIIth Congress of the RCP (B) 23/3/1919 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[]
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