Central Committee of 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).
Central Committee of the 8th Congress | |
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23 March 1919 – 5 April 1920 | |
Inner-groups | Politburo: 6 full & 3 candidates Secretariat: 3 members Orgburo: 9 full & 1 candidates |
Candidates | |
Plenary sessions
editPlenum | Date | Length |
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1st Plenary Session | 20 March 1919 | 1 day |
2nd Plenary Session | 25 March 1919 | 1 day |
3rd Plenary Session | 13 April 1919 | 1 day |
4th Plenary Session | 5 May 1919 | 1 day |
5th Plenary Session | 10–11 June 1919 | 2 days |
6th Plenary Session | 15 June 1919 | 1 day |
7th Plenary Session | 3–4 July 1919 | 2 days |
8th Plenary Session | 21, 26 September 1919 | 2 days |
9th Plenary Session | 29 November 1919 | 1 day |
10th Plenary Session | 31 January 1920 | 1 day |
11th Plenary Session | 6 February 1920 | 1 day |
Composition
editMembers
editName | Cyrillic | 7th CC | 9th CC | Birth | Death | PM | Nationality | Gender | Portrait |
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Alexander Beloborodov | Александр Белобородов | New | Candidate | 1891 | 1938 | 1907 | Russian | Male | |
Nikolai Bukharin | Никола́й Буха́рин | Old | Reelected | 1888 | 1938 | 1906 | Russian | Male | |
Felix Dzerzhinsky | Фе́ликс Дзержи́нский | Old | Reelected | 1877 | 1926 | 1906 | Polish | Male | |
Mikhail Kalinin | Михаил Калинин | New | Reelected | 1875 | 1946 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
Lev Kamenev | Лев Ка́менев | Old | Reelected | 1883 | 1936 | 1901 | Jewish-Russian | Male | |
Nikolay Krestinsky | Никола́й Крести́нский | Old | Reelected | 1883 | 1938 | 1901 | Ukrainian[3] | Male | |
Vladimir Lenin | Владимир Ленин | Old | Reelected | 1870 | 1924 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
Matvei Muranov | Матвей Муранов | New | Candidate | 1873 | 1959 | 1904 | Ukrainian | Male | |
Karl Radek | Карл Радек | New | Reelected | 1885 | 1939 | 1903 | Jewish[4][5] | Male | |
Christian Rakovsky | Христиан Раковский | New | Reelected | 1873 | 1941 | 1917 | Bulgarian | Male | |
Leonid Serebryakov | Леонид Серебряков | New | Reelected | 1890 | 1937 | 1905 | Russian | Male | |
Ivar Smilga | Ивар Смилга | Old | Candidate | 1892 | 1938 | 1907 | Latvian | Male | |
Joseph Stalin | Ио́сиф Ста́лин | Old | Reelected | 1878 | 1953 | 1898 | Georgian | Male | |
Elena Stasova | Еле́на Ста́сова | Old | Not | 1873 | 1966 | 1898 | Russian | Female | |
Pēteris Stučka | Пётр Сту́чка | Candidate | Candidate | 1865 | 1932 | 1906 | Latvian | Male | |
Mikhail Tomsky | Михаил Томский | New | Reelected | 1880 | 1936 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
Leon Trotsky | Лев Тро́цкий | Old | Reelected | 1879 | 1940 | 1917 | Jewish[6][7] | Male | |
Grigory Yevdokimov | Григорий Евдокимов | New | Not | 1884 | 1936 | 1903 | Russian | Male | |
Grigory Zinoviev | Григо́рий Зино́вьев | Old | Reelected | 1883 | 1936 | 1901 | Jewish[8][9] | Male |
Candidates
editName | Cyrillic | 7th CC | 9th CC | Birth | Death | PM | Nationality | Gender | Portrait |
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Andrei Bubnov | Андрей Бубнов | New | Not | 1884 | 1938 | 1903 | Russian | Male | |
Jūlijs Daniševskis | Владимир Милютин | New | Not | 1884 | 1937 | 1906 | Latvian | Male | |
Vincas Mickevičius | Винцас Мицкявичюс | New | Not | 1880 | 1935 | 1906 | Lithuanian | Male | |
Vasily Schmidt | Василий Шмидт | Member | Not | 1886 | 1938 | 1905 | German[10] | Male | |
Fyodor Sergeyev | Фёдор Серге́ев | Member | Member | 1895 | 1921 | 1914 | Russian | Male | |
Ivan Smirnov | Иван Смирнов | New | Member | 1881 | 1936 | 1899 | Russian | Male | |
Mikhail Vladimirsky | Михаи́л Влади́мирский | Member | Not | 1874 | 1951 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
Yemelyan Yaroslavsky | Емельян Ярославский | New | Candidate | 1878 | 1943 | 1898 | Jewish[7] | Male |
References
editGeneral
editPlenary 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, 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 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
edit- 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
edit- ^ Service, Robert (2005). Stalin: A Biography. Harvard University Press. p. 103.
- ^ Lindemann, Albert S. (1997). Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews. Cambridge University Press. p. 430.
- ^ Marie, Jean-Jacques (1974). Makers of the Russian Revolution: Biographies of Bolshevik Leaders. Cornell University Press. p. 152.
- ^ Lindemann, Albert S. (1997). Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews. Cambridge University Press. p. 432.
- ^ Riga, Liliana (2012). The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire. Cambridge University Press. pp. 60 and 304.
- ^ Rubenstein, Joshua (2011). Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life. Yale University Press. p. 1.
- ^ a b Riga, Liliana (2012). The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire. Cambridge University Press. pp. 60 and 304.
- ^ Service, Robert (2005). Stalin: A Biography. Harvard University Press. p. 103.
- ^ Lindemann, Albert S. (1997). Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews. Cambridge University Press. p. 430.
- ^ Ivkin, V.I. Государственная власть СССР. Высшие органы власти и управления и их руководители. 1923—1991 гг. Историко-биографический справочни (in Russian). Moscow. p. 605.
Notes
edit- ^ His father was Jewish and his mother Russian