The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 11th Congress, and sat from 2 April 1922 until 25 April 1923 . 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 11th Congress | |
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2 April 1922 – 25 April 1923 | |
Leadership | |
General Secretary | Joseph Stalin |
Second Secretary | Vyacheslav Molotov |
Inner-groups | Politburo: 7 full & 3 candidates Secretariat: 3 members Orgburo: 7 full & 3 candidates |
Candidates | |
Plenums
editThe CC was not a permanent institution. It convened nine plenary sessions between the 11th Congress and the 12th 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 | Date | Length |
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1st Plenary Session | 3 April 1922 | 1 day |
2nd Plenary Session | 16 May 1922 | 1 day |
3rd Plenary Session | 2 August 1922 | 1 day |
4th Plenary Session | 8 August 1922 | 1 day |
5th Plenary Session | 5–7 October 1922 | 3 days |
6th Plenary Session | 18 December 1922 | 1 day |
7th Plenary Session | 21–24 February 1923 | 4 days |
8th Plenary Session | 30–31 March 1923 | 2 days |
9th Plenary Session | 15 April 1923 | 1 day |
Apparatus
editIndividuals employed by Central Committee's bureaus, departments and newspapers made up the apparatus between the 11th Congress and the 12th 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]
Institution | Leader | Cyrillic | Took office | Left office | Length of tenure | Nationality | Gender |
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Accounting and Distribution Department | Sergey Syrtsov | Серге́й Сырцо́в | 2 April 1922 | 25 April 1923 | 1 year and 23 days | Russian | Male |
Administrator of Affairs | Ivan Ksenofontov | Иван Ксенофонтов | 2 April 1922 | 25 April 1923 | 1 year and 23 days | Greek[8] | Male |
Agitation and Propaganda Department | Andrei Bubnov | Андрей Бубнов | 2 April 1922 | 25 April 1923 | 1 year and 23 days | Russian | Male |
Bureau of the Secretariat | Amayak Nazaretyan | Амаяк Назаретян | 2 April 1922 | 25 April 1923 | 1 year and 23 days | Armenian | Male |
Central Asian Bureau | Jānis Rudzutaks | Ян Рудзутак | 2 April 1922 | 25 April 1923 | 1 year and 23 days | Latvian | Male |
Department for Work Among Women | Sofia Smidovich | Софья Смидович | 2 April 1922 | 25 April 1923 | 1 year and 23 days | Russian | Female |
Department of Party History | Mikhail Olminsky | Михаил Ольминский | 2 April 1922 | 25 April 1923 | 1 year and 23 days | Russian | Male |
Far Eastern Bureau | Nikolay Kubiak | Николай Кубяк | 2 April 1922 | 25 April 1923 | 1 year and 23 days | Russian | Male |
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Organizational and Instructional Department | Nikolai Lisitsyn | Николай Лисицын | 2 April 1922 | June 1922 | 89 days | Russian | Male |
Lazar Kaganovich | Лазарь Каганович | June 1922 | 25 April 1923 | 1 year and 27 days | Jewish[9][10][11] | Male | |
Siberian Bureau | Stanislav Kosior | Станислав Косиор | 2 April 1922 | 25 April 1923 | 1 year and 23 days | Polish | Male |
South-Eastern Bureau | Anastas Mikoyan | Анастас Микоян | 2 April 1922 | 25 April 1923 | 1 year and 23 days | Armenian | Male |
Statistical Department | Stanislav Strumilin | Станисла́в Струми́лин | 2 April 1922 | 25 April 1923 | 1 year and 23 days | Russian | Male |
Ural Bureau | Timofei Sapronov | Тимофе́й Сапро́нов | 2 April 1922 | 25 April 1923 | 1 year and 23 days | Russian | Male |
Ural Industrial Bureau | Daniil Sulimov | Даниил Сулимов | 2 April 1922 | 25 April 1923 | 1 year and 23 days | Russian | Male |
Composition
editMembers
editName | Cyrillic | 10th CC | 12th CC | Birth | Death | PM | Nationality | Gender | Portrait |
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Andrey Andreyev | Андрей Андреев | New | Reelected | 1895 | 1971 | 1914 | Russian | Male | |
Nikolai Bukharin | Никола́й Буха́рин | Old | Reelected | 1888 | 1938 | 1906 | Russian | Male | |
Vlas Chubar | Влас Чубар | Candidate | Reelected | 1891 | 1939 | 1907 | Ukrainian | Male | |
Felix Dzerzhinsky | Фе́ликс Дзержи́нский | Old | Reelected | 1877 | 1926 | 1906 | Polish | Male | |
Mikhail Frunze | Михаил Фрунзе | Old | Reelected | 1885 | 1925 | 1904 | Romanian-Russian | Male | |
Mikhail Kalinin | Михаил Калинин | Old | Reelected | 1875 | 1946 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
Lev Kamenev | Лев Ка́менев | Old | Reelected | 1883 | 1936 | 1901 | Jewish-Russian | Male | |
Ivan Korotkov | Иван Коротков | New | Reelected | 1885 | 1949 | 1905 | Russian | Male | —
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Valerian Kuybyshev | Валериан Куйбышев | Candidate | Not | 1888 | 1935 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
Vladimir Lenin | Владимир Ленин | Old | Reelected | 1870 | 1924 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
Vyacheslav Molotov | Вячеслав Молотов | Old | Reelected | 1890 | 1986 | 1906 | Russian | Male | |
Grigol Ordzhonikidze | Григо́рий Орджоники́дзе | Old | Reelected | 1886 | 1937 | 1903 | Georgian | Male | |
Grigory Petrovsky | Григо́рій Петро́вський | Old | Reelected | 1878 | 1958 | 1898 | Ukrainian | Male | |
Karl Radek | Карл Радек | Old | Reelected | 1885 | 1939 | 1903 | Jewish[16][17] | Male | |
Christian Rakovsky | Христиан Раковский | Old | Reelected | 1873 | 1941 | 1917 | Bulgarian | Male | |
Jānis Rudzutaks | Ян Рудзутак | Old | Reelected | 1887 | 1938 | 1905 | Latvian | Male | |
Alexei Rykov | Алексей Рыков | Old | Reelected | 1881 | 1938 | 1899 | Russian | Male | |
Timofei Sapronov | Тимофе́й Сапро́нов | New | Not | 1887 | 1937 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
Alexander Smirnov | Александр Смирнов | New | Reelected | 1878 | 1938 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
Grigori Sokolnikov | Григорий Сокольников | New | Reelected | 1888 | 1938 | 1905 | Jewish[18][19] | Male | |
Joseph Stalin | Ио́сиф Ста́лин | Old | Reelected | 1878 | 1953 | 1898 | Georgian | Male | |
Mikhail Tomsky | Михаил Томский | Old | Reelected | 1880 | 1936 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
Leon Trotsky | Лев Тро́цкий | Old | Reelected | 1879 | 1940 | 1917 | Jewish[20][17] | Male | |
Kliment Voroshilov | Климент Ворошилов | Old | Reelected | 1881 | 1969 | 1903 | Russian | Male | |
Yemelyan Yaroslavsky | Емельян Ярославский | Old | Not | 1878 | 1943 | 1898 | Jewish[17] | Male | |
Isaak Zelensky | Исаак Зеленский | Candidate | Reelected | 1890 | 1937 | 1906 | Jewish[21][22] | Male | |
Grigory Zinoviev | Григо́рий Зино́вьев | Old | Reelected | 1883 | 1936 | 1901 | Jewish[23][15] | Male |
Candidates
editName | Cyrillic | 10th CC | 12th CC | Birth | Death | PM | Nationality | Gender | Portrait |
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Aleksei Badayev | Алексей Бадаев | New | Candidate | 1883 | 1951 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
Andrei Bubnov | Андрей Бубнов | New | Candidate | 1884 | 1938 | 1903 | Russian | Male | |
Sergey Gusev | Сергей Гусев | Candidate | Not | 1874 | 1933 | 1898 | Jewish[24] | Male | |
Sergey Kirov | Серге́й Ки́ров | Candidate | Member | 1886 | 1934 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
Aleksei Kiselyov | Алексей Киселёв | Candidate | Not | 1879 | 1937 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
Nikolay Komarov | Николай Комаров | Member | Member | 1886 | 1937 | 1909 | Russian | Male | |
Timofei Krivov | Тимофей Кривов | New | Not | 1886 | 1966 | 1905 | Chuvash[25] | Male | —
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Dmitry Lebed | Дмитрий Лебедь | New | Candidate | 1893 | 1937 | 1909 | Russian | Male | |
Ivan Lepse | Иван Лепсе | New | Candidate | 1889 | 1929 | 1904 | Latvian | Male | —
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Semyon Lobov | Семён Лобов | New | Not | 1888 | 1937 | 1913 | Russian | Male | —
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Dmitry Manuilsky | Дмитро Мануїльський | New | Member | 1883 | 1959 | 1903 | Ukrainian | Male | |
Vasily Mikhailov | Василий Михайлов | Member | Member | 1894 | 1937 | 1915 | Russian | Male | |
Anastas Mikoyan | Анастас Микоян | New | Member | 1895 | 1978 | 1915 | Armenian | Male | |
Georgy Pyatakov | Юрій П'ятаков | New | Member | 1890 | 1937 | 1910 | Russian | Male | |
Abdullo Rakhimbayev | Абдулло Рахимбаев | New | Not | 1896 | 1938 | 1919 | Uzbek | Male | |
Georgy Safarov | Георгий Сафаров | Candidate | Not | 1891 | 1942 | 1908 | Armenian-Polish | Male | |
Vasily Schmidt | Василий Шмидт | Candidate | Not | 1886 | 1938 | 1905 | German[27] | Male | |
Ivar Smilga | Ивар Смилга | New | Not | 1892 | 1938 | 1907 | Latvian | Male | |
Daniil Sulimov | Даниил Сулимов | Candidate | Member | 1890 | 1937 | 1905 | Russian | Male |
References
editGeneral
editPlenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity (by clicking on the individual names on "The Central Committee elected by the XI th Congress of the RCP (B) 02.04.1922 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.
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- 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.
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