Central Committee of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Central Committee of the 10th Congress | |
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16 March 1921 – 2 April 1922 | |
Responsible Secretary | Vyacheslav Molotov |
Inner-groups | Politburo: 7 full & 3 candidates Secretariat: 3 members Orgburo: 7 full & 3 candidates |
Candidates | |
The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 10th Congress, and sat from 16 March 1921 until 2 April 1922. The CC 1st Plenary Session renewed the composition of the Politburo, Secretariat and the Organizational Bureau (OB) of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
Plenums
[edit]The CC was not a permanent institution. It convened plenary sessions, of which nine CC plenary sessions and one joint CC–Central Control Commission (CCC) plenary sessions were held between the 10th Congress and the 11th 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 | 16 March 1921 | 1 day |
2nd Plenary Session | 16–18 May 1921 | 3 days |
3rd Plenary Session | 28 May 1921 | 1 day |
4th Plenary Session | 8 August 1921 | 1 day |
1st Joint Plenary Session | 9 August 1921 | 1 day |
5th Plenary Session | 9 August 1921 | 1 day |
6th Plenary Session | 10 August 1921 | 1 day |
7th Plenary Session | 18 December 1921 | 1 day |
8th Plenary Session | 28 December 1921 | 1 day |
9th Plenary Session | 25 March 1922 | 1 day |
Apparatus
[edit]Individuals employed by Central Committee's bureaus, departments and newspapers made up the apparatus between the 10th Congress and the 11th 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 | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Russian | Male |
Administrator of Affairs | Pavel Gorbunov | Павел Горбунов | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Russian | Male |
Agitation and Propaganda Department | Lev Sosnovsky | Лев Сосновский | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Jewish[8] | Male |
Bureau of the Secretariat | Nikolay Smirnov | Николай Смирнов | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Russian | Male |
Caucasian Bureau | Grigol Ordzhonikidze | Григо́рий Орджоники́дзе | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Georgian | Male |
Department for Work Among Women | Alexandra Kollontai | Алекса́ндра Коллонта́й | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Ukrainian-Finnish[9][a] | Female |
Department of Party History | Mikhail Olminsky | Михаил Ольминский | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Russian | Male |
Far Eastern Bureau | Pyotr Anokhin | Пётр Анохин | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Russian | Male |
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Organizational and Instructional Department | Pyotr Zalutsky | Петро Залуцький | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Russian | Male |
Siberian Bureau | Ivan Smirnov | Иван Смирнов | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Russian | Male |
South-East Bureau | Anastas Mikoyan | Анастас Микоян | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Armenian | Male |
Statistical Department | Stanislav Strumilin | Станисла́в Струми́лин | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Russian | Male |
Turkestan Bureau | Georgy Safarov | Георгий Сафаров | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Armenian-Polish[10] | Male |
Ural Bureau | Ivan Tuntul | Иван Тунтул | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Latvian | Male |
Ural Industrial Bureau | Daniil Sulimov | Даниил Сулимов | 16 March 1921 | 2 April 1922 | 1 year and 17 days | Russian | Male |
Composition
[edit]Members
[edit]Name | Cyrillic | 9th CC | 11th CC | Birth | Death | PM | Nationality | Gender | Portrait |
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Nikolai Bukharin | Никола́й Буха́рин | Old | Reelected | 1888 | 1938 | 1906 | Russian | Male | |
Felix Dzerzhinsky | Фе́ликс Дзержи́нский | Old | Reelected | 1877 | 1926 | 1906 | Polish | Male | |
Mikhail Frunze | Михаил Фрунзе | New | 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 | |
Nikolay Komarov | Николай Комаров | New | Candidate | 1886 | 1937 | 1909 | Russian | Male | |
Ivan Kutuzov | Иван Кутузов | New | Not | 1885 | 1937 | 1906 | Russian | Male | —
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Vladimir Lenin | Владимир Ленин | Old | Reelected | 1870 | 1924 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
Vasily Mikhailov | Василий Михайлов | Old | Not | 1894 | 1937 | 1915 | Russian | Male | |
Vyacheslav Molotov | Вячеслав Молотов | Candidate | Reelected | 1890 | 1986 | 1906 | Russian | Male | |
Grigol Ordzhonikidze | Григо́рий Орджоники́дзе | New | Reelected | 1886 | 1937 | 1903 | Georgian | Male | |
Grigory Petrovsky | Григо́рій Петро́вський | Candidate | Reelected | 1878 | 1958 | 1898 | Ukrainian | Male | |
Karl Radek | Карл Радек | Old | Reelected | 1885 | 1939 | 1903 | Jewish[15][16] | 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 | |
Fyodor Sergeyev | Фёдор Серге́ев | Old | Not | 1895 | 1921 | 1914 | Russian | Male | |
Alexander Shliapnikov | Алекса́ндр Шля́пников | New | Not | 1885 | 1937 | 1901 | Russian | 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[17][16] | Male | |
Ivan Tuntul | Иван Тунтул | New | Not | 1892 | 1938 | 1907 | Latvian | Male | —
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Kliment Voroshilov | Климент Ворошилов | New | Reelected | 1881 | 1969 | 1903 | Russian | Male | |
Yemelyan Yaroslavsky | Емельян Ярославский | Candidate | Reelected | 1878 | 1943 | 1898 | Jewish[16] | Male | |
Grigory Zinoviev | Григо́рий Зино́вьев | Old | Reelected | 1883 | 1936 | 1901 | Jewish[18][19] | Male |
Candidates
[edit]Name | Cyrillic | 9th CC | 11th CC | Birth | Death | PM | Nationality | Gender | Portrait |
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Vlas Chubar | Влас Чубар | New | Member | 1891 | 1939 | 1907 | Ukrainian | Male | |
Sergey Gusev | Сергей Гусев | Candidate | Candidate | 1874 | 1933 | 1898 | Jewish[20] | Male | |
Sergey Kirov | Серге́й Ки́ров | New | Candidate | 1886 | 1934 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
Aleksei Kiselyov | Алексей Киселёв | New | Candidate | 1879 | 1937 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
Valerian Kuybyshev | Валериан Куйбышев | New | Member | 1888 | 1935 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
Vladimir Milyutin | Владимир Милютин | Candidate | Not | 1884 | 1937 | 1910 | Russian | Male | |
Valerian Osinsky | Валериан Оболенский | New | Not | 1887 | 1938 | 1907 | Russian | Male | |
Georgy Safarov | Георгий Сафаров | New | Candidate | 1891 | 1942 | 1908 | Armenian-Polish | Male | |
Vasily Schmidt | Василий Шмидт | New | Candidate | 1886 | 1938 | 1905 | German[21] | Male | |
Ivan Smirnov | Иван Смирнов | New | Not | 1881 | 1936 | 1899 | Russian | Male | |
Daniil Sulimov | Даниил Сулимов | New | Candidate | 1890 | 1937 | 1905 | Russian | Male | |
Nikolai Uglanov | Николай Угланов | New | Not | 1886 | 1937 | 1907 | Russian | Male | |
Pyotr Zalutsky | Петро Залуцький | Candidate | Not | 1887 | 1937 | 1907 | Russian | Male | |
Isaak Zelensky | Исаак Зеленский | New | Member | 1890 | 1937 | 1906 | Jewish[22][23] | Male |
References
[edit]General
[edit]Plenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity (by clicking on the individual names on "The Central Committee, elected X th Congress of the RCP (B) 16/3/1921 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 X-м съездом РКП(б) 16.3.1921, члены" [The Central Committee, elected X th Congress of the RCP (B) 16/3/1921 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.
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- ^ Fainsod & Hough 1979, p. 410.
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