Central Committee elected by the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

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[]

	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[]

Members[]

Full[]

Name Cyrillic	BY	DY	PM	Ethnicity	Portrait	First post held (during term)	CIM
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	—
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	—
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	—
Joseph Stalin Ио́сиф Ста́лин	1878	1953	1898	Georgian		People's Commissar for Nationalities	PB, OB
Elena Stasova Еле́на Ста́сова	1873	1966	1898	Russian		Chair, Secretariat	PB, SC, OB
Pēteris Stučka Пётр Сту́чка	1865	1932	1906	Latvian		Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Latvian SSR	—
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	—
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)
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.

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