Central Committee of the 14th Congress | |
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31 December 1925 – 19 December 1927 | |
Leadership | |
General Secretary | Joseph Stalin |
Second Secretary | Vyacheslav Molotov |
Inner-groups | Politburo: 10 full & 11 candidates Secretariat: 6 full & 3 candidates Orgburo: 15 full & 5 candidates |
Candidates | |
Apparatus | |
No. of departments | 11 |
The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 14th Congress, and sat from 31 December 1925 until 19 December 1927. The CC 1st Plenary Session renewed the composition of the Politburo, Secretariat and the Organizational Bureau (OB) of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
The CC was not a permanent institution. It convened plenary sessions, one emergency session, four CC plenary sessions and six joint CC–Central Control Commission (CCC) plenary sessions were held between the 14th Congress and the 15th 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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Emergency Plenary Session | 28 December 1925 | 1 day |
1st Plenary Session | 1 January 1926 | 1 day |
2nd Plenary Session | 6–9 April 1926 | 4 days |
1st Joint Plenary Session | 14–23 July 1926 | 11 days |
2nd Joint Plenary Session | 23, 26 October 1926 | 2 days |
3rd Joint Plenary Session | 3 November 1926 | 1 day |
3rd Plenary Session | 7–12 February 1927 | 6 days |
4th Plenary Session | 13–16 April 1927 | 4 days |
4th Joint Plenary Session | 29 June – 9 August 1927 | 12 days |
5th Joint Plenary Session | 21–23 October 1927 | 3 days |
6th Joint Plenary Session | 12–14 November 1927 | 3 days |
Individuals employed by Central Committee's bureaus, departments and newspapers made up the apparatus between the 14th Congress and the 15th 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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Administrator of Affairs | Yakov Brezanovsky | Яков Брезановский | 31 December 1925 | 19 December 1927 | 1 year and 353 days | Jewish [8] | Male |
Pyotr Guzakov | Пётр Гузаков | 31 December 1925 | 19 December 1927 | 1 year and 353 days | Russian | Male | |
Agitation and Propaganda Department | Sergei Syrtsov | Сергей Сырцов | 31 December 1925 | 27 January 1926 | 27 days | Russian | Male |
Vilhelm Knorin | Вильгельм Кнорин | 27 January 1926 | May 1927 | 1 year and 124 days | Latvian | Male | |
Alexander Krinitsky | Александр Криницкий | May 1927 | 19 December 1927 | 202 days | Russian | Male | |
Bolshevik | Nikolai Bukharin | Никола́й Буха́рин | 31 December 1925 | 19 December 1927 | 1 year and 353 days | Russian | Male |
Bureau of the Secretariat | Lev Mekhlis | Лев Мехлис | 31 December 1925 | 22 January 1926 | 22 days | Jewish [9] [10] | Male |
Ivan Tovstukha | Иван Товстуха | 22 January 1926 | 19 March 1926 | 56 days | Ukrainian | Male | |
Central Asian Bureau | Isaak Zelensky | Исаак Зеленский | 31 December 1925 | 19 December 1927 | 1 year and 353 days | Jewish [11] [12] | Male |
Department for Work Among Women (until July 1926) Department for Worker Women and Peasant Women (from July 1926) | Klavdiya Nikolayeva | Клавдия Николаева | 31 December 1925 | 27 January 1926 | 27 days | Russian | Female |
Aleksandra Artyukhina | Александра Артюхина | 27 January 1926 | 19 December 1927 | 1 year and 326 days | Russian | Female | |
Department of Party History | Semyon Kanatchikov | Семён Канатчиков | 31 December 1925 | September 1926 | 273 days | Russian | Male |
Finance Department | P. N. Ivanov | П. Н. Иванов | 31 December 1925 | 19 December 1927 | 1 year and 353 days | Russian | Male |
Information Department | Lev Roshal | Лев Рошаль | 31 December 1925 | 19 December 1927 | 1 year and 353 days | Jewish [13] [14] [15] | Male |
Lenin Institute | Lev Kamenev | Лев Ка́менев | 31 December 1925 | 1926 | 31 days | Jewish-Russian | Male |
Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov | Ива́н Скворцо́в-Степа́нов | 1926 | 19 December 1927 | 1 year and 322 days | Russian | Male | |
North–West Bureau | Nikolay Komarov | Николай Колотилов | 31 December 1925 | 19 December 1927 | 1 year and 353 days | Russian | Male |
Organizational and Distribution Department | Konstantin Gey | Константин Гей | 31 December 1925 | 25 March 1926 | 84 days | Russian | Male |
Ivan Moskvin | Иван Москвин | 25 March 1926 | 19 December 1927 | 1 year and 269 days | Russian | Male | |
Press Department | Juozas Vareikis | Иосиф Варейкис | 31 December 1925 | January 1926 | 28 days | Lithuanian | Male |
Vladimir Vasilievsky | Владимир Васильевский | 28 January 1926 | 4 March 1926 | 34 days | Russian | Male | |
Sergei Gusev | Сергей Гусев | March 1926 | 19 December 1927 | 1 year and 293 days | Jewish [18] | Male | |
Pravda | Nikolai Bukharin | Никола́й Буха́рин | 31 December 1925 | 19 December 1927 | 1 year and 353 days | Russian | Male |
Secret Department | Ivan Tovstukha | Иван Товстуха | 19 March 1926 | 19 December 1927 | 1 year and 275 days | Ukrainian | Male |
Statistical Department | Yelena Smitten | Елена Смиттен | 31 December 1925 | 19 December 1927 | 1 year and 353 days | Belarusian | Female |
Name | Cyrillic | 13th CC | 15th CC | Birth | Death | PM | Nationality | Gender | Portrait |
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Andrey Andreyev | Андрей Андреев | Old | Reelected | 1895 | 1971 | 1914 | Russian | Male | |
Nikolay Antipov | Николай Антипов | Old | Reelected | 1894 | 1938 | 1912 | Russian | Male | |
Aleksandra Artyukhina | Александра Артюхина | Candidate | Reelected | 1889 | 1969 | 1910 | Russian | Female | |
Aleksei Badayev | Алексей Бадаев | Candidate | Reelected | 1883 | 1951 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
Karl Bauman | Карл Бауман | Old | Reelected | 1892 | 1937 | 1907 | Latvian | Male | — |
Andrei Bubnov | Андрей Бубнов | Old | Reelected | 1884 | 1938 | 1903 | Russian | Male | |
Nikolai Bukharin | Никола́й Буха́рин | Old | Reelected | 1888 | 1938 | 1906 | Russian | Male | |
Georgy Chicherin | Георгий Чичерин | New | Reelected | 1872 | 1936 | 1918 | Russian | Male | |
Vlas Chubar | Влас Чубар | Old | Reelected | 1891 | 1939 | 1907 | Ukrainian | Male | |
Mikhail Chudov | Михаил Чудов | Candidate | Reelected | 1893 | 1937 | 1913 | Russian | Male | — |
Alexander Dogadov | Александр Догадов | Old | Reelected | 1888 | 1937 | 1905 | Russian | Male | — |
Felix Dzerzhinsky | Фе́ликс Дзержи́нский | Old | Died | 1877 | 1926 | 1906 | Polish | Male | |
Ivan Kabakov | Иван Кабаков | Candidate | Reelected | 1891 | 1937 | 1914 | Russian | Male | — |
Lazar Kaganovich | Лазарь Каганович | Old | Reelected | 1893 | 1991 | 1911 | Jewish | Male | |
Mikhail Kalinin | Михаил Калинин | Old | Reelected | 1875 | 1946 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
Lev Kamenev | Лев Ка́менев | Old | Not | 1883 | 1936 | 1901 | Jewish-Russian | Male | |
Kuprian Kirkizh | Куприян Киркиж | Candidate | Reelected | 1886 | 1932 | 1910 | Belarusian | Male | |
Sergey Kirov | Серге́й Ки́ров | Old | Reelected | 1886 | 1934 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
Nikolay Kolotilov | Николай Колотилов | Old | Reelected | 1885 | 1937 | 1903 | Russian | Male | — |
Nikolay Komarov | Николай Колотилов | Old | Reelected | 1886 | 1937 | 1909 | Russian | Male | |
Stanislav Kosior | Станислав Косиор | Old | Reelected | 1889 | 1939 | 1907 | Polish | Male | |
Vasily Kotov | Василий Котов | New | Reelected | 1885 | 1937 | 1915 | Russian | Male | — |
Leonid Krasin | Леонид Красин | Old | Died | 1870 | 1926 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
Gleb Krzhizhanovsky | Глеб Кржижано́вский | Old | Reelected | 1872 | 1959 | 1898 | Polish-German | Male | |
Nikolay Kubyak | Николай Кубяк | Old | Reelected | 1881 | 1937 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
Yegor Kulikov | Егор Куликов | New | Reelected | 1891 | 1943 | 1910 | Russian | Male | — |
Emanuel Kviring | Эммануил Квиринг | Old | Reelected | 1888 | 1937 | 1912 | Volga German | Male | |
Ivan Lepse | Иван Лепсе | Old | Reelected | 1889 | 1929 | 1906 | Latvian | Male | — |
Semen Lobov | Семён Лобов | Old | Reelected | 1888 | 1937 | 1913 | Russian | Male | — |
Dmitry Manuilsky | Дмитро Мануїльський | Old | Reelected | 1883 | 1959 | 1903 | Ukrainian | Male | |
Alexei Medvedev | Алексей Медведев | Old | Reelected | 1884 | 1937 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
Vasily Mikhailov | Василий Михайлов | Old | Reelected | 1894 | 1937 | 1915 | Russian | Male | |
Anastas Mikoyan | Анастас Микоян | Old | Reelected | 1895 | 1978 | 1915 | Armenian | Male | |
Vyacheslav Molotov | Вячеслав Молотов | Old | Reelected | 1890 | 1986 | 1906 | Russian | Male | |
Mamia Orakhelashvili | Мамия Орахелашвили | Promoted | Reelected | 1888 | 1937 | 1903 | Georgian | Male | |
Grigol Ordzhonikidze | Григо́рий Орджоники́дзе | Old | Not | 1886 | 1937 | 1903 | Georgian | Male | |
Grigory Petrovsky | Григо́рій Петро́вський | Old | Reelected | 1878 | 1958 | 1898 | Ukrainian | Male | |
Georgy Pyatakov | Юрій П'ятаков | Old | Not | 1890 | 1937 | 1910 | Russian | Male | |
Andrey Radchenko | Андрей Радченко | New | Not | 1887 | 1938 | 1912 | Ukrainian | Male | — |
Christian Rakovsky | Христиан Раковский | Old | Not | 1873 | 1941 | 1917 | Bulgarian | Male | |
Jānis Rudzutaks | Ян Рудзутак | Old | Reelected | 1887 | 1938 | 1906 | Latvian | Male | |
Moisei Rukhimovich | Моисей Рухимович | Old | Reelected | 1889 | 1937 | 1913 | Jewish [25] | Male | |
Ivan Rumyantsev | Иван Румянцев | Old | Reelected | 1886 | 1937 | 1905 | Russian | Male | |
Alexei Rykov | Алексей Рыков | Old | Reelected | 1881 | 1938 | 1899 | Russian | Male | |
Vasily Schmidt | Сергей Чуцкаев | Candidate | Reelected | 1886 | 1938 | 1905 | German [26] | Male | |
Isaak Schwartz | Исаак Шварц | Old | Reelected | 1879 | 1951 | 1899 | Jewish [27] | Male | |
Nikolai Shvernik | Николай Шверник | New | Reelected | 1888 | 1970 | 1905 | Russian | Male | |
Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov | Ива́н Скворцо́в-Степа́нов | New | Reelected | 1878 | 1928 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
Ivar Smilga | Ивар Смилга | Candidate | Not | 1892 | 1938 | 1907 | Latvian | Male | |
Alexander Smirnov | Александр Смирнов | Old | Reelected | 1878 | 1938 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
Grigori Sokolnikov | Григорий Сокольников | Old | Reelected | 1888 | 1938 | 1905 | Jewish [28] [29] | Male | |
Joseph Stalin | Ио́сиф Ста́лин | Old | Reelected | 1878 | 1953 | 1898 | Georgian | Male | |
Daniil Sulimov | Даниил Сулимов | Old | Reelected | 1890 | 1937 | 1905 | Russian | Male | |
Aleksandr Tolokontsev | Александр Толоконцев | Candidate | Reelected | 1889 | 1937 | 1914 | Russian | Male | — |
Mikhail Tomsky | Михаил Томский | Old | Reelected | 1880 | 1936 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
Leon Trotsky | Лев Тро́цкий | Old | Removed | 1879 | 1940 | 1917 | Jewish [30] [31] | Male | |
Alexander Tsiurupa | Алекса́ндр Цюру́па | Old | Reelected | 1870 | 1928 | 1898 | Ukrainian | Male | |
Nikolai Uglanov | Николай Угланов | Old | Reelected | 1886 | 1937 | 1907 | Russian | Male | |
Konstantin Ukhanov | Константин Уханов | Old | Reelected | 1891 | 1937 | 1907 | Russian | Male | |
Kliment Voroshilov | Климент Ворошилов | Old | Reelected | 1881 | 1969 | 1903 | Russian | Male | |
Grigory Yevdokimov | Григорий Евдокимов | Old | Removed | 1884 | 1936 | 1903 | Russian | Male | |
Isaak Zelensky | Исаак Зеленский | Old | Reelected | 1890 | 1937 | 1906 | Jewish [32] [33] | Male | |
Ivan Zhukov | Иван Жуков | New | Reelected | 1889 | 1937 | 1909 | Russian | Male | — |
Grigory Zinoviev | Григо́рий Зино́вьев | Old | Not | 1883 | 1936 | 1901 | Jewish [34] [35] | Male |
Name | Cyrillic | 13th CC | 15th CC | Birth | Death | PM | Nationality | Gender | Portrait |
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Ivan Avdeev | Иван Авдеев | New | Removed | 1877 | 1936 | 1901 | Russian | Male | — |
Nikolai Chaplin | Николай Чаплин | Candidate | Candidate | 1902 | 1938 | 1919 | Russian | Male | — |
Robert Eikhe | Роберт Эйхе | New | Candidate | 1890 | 1940 | 1906 | Latvian | Male | |
Yan Gamarnik | Ян Гамарник | New | Member | 1894 | 1937 | 1916 | Jewish [36] | Male | — |
Konstantin Gey | Константин Гей | Candidate | Candidate | 1896 | 1939 | 1916 | Russian | Male | |
Filipp Goloshchyokin | Филипп Голощёкин | Candidate | Member | 1876 | 1941 | 1903 | Jewish [37] | Male | |
Akmal Ikramov | Акмаль Икрамов | New | Candidate | 1898 | 1938 | 1918 | Uzbek | Male | |
Vladimir Ivanov | Владимир Иванов | New | Candidate | 1893 | 1938 | 1915 | Russian | Male | |
Anna Kalgyna | Анна Калыгина | New | Candidate | 1895 | 1937 | 1915 | Russian | Female | — |
Grigory Kaminsky | Григорий Каминский | New | Candidate | 1895 | 1938 | 1913 | Jewish [38] [39] | Male | |
Aleksei Kiselyov | Алексей Киселёв | New | Candidate | 1879 | 1937 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
Ivan Klimenko | Иван Клименко | New | Candidate | 1891 | 1937 | 1912 | Russian | Male | |
Ivan Kodatsky | Иван Кодацкий | New | Candidate | 1893 | 1937 | 1914 | Russian | Male | |
Taras Kondratyev | Тарас Кондратьев | New | Candidate | 1892 | 1937 | 1913 | Russian | Male | — |
Joseph Kosior | Иосиф Косиор | New | Member | 1889 | 1937 | 1908 | Polish | Male | |
Alexander Krinitsky | Александр Криницкий | Candidate | Candidate | 1894 | 1937 | 1915 | Russian | Male | |
Mikhail Lashevich | Александр Криницкий | Member | Removed | 1884 | 1937 | 1901 | Jewish [40] [41] | Male | |
Vissarion Lominadze | Виссарион Ломинадзе | New | Candidate | 1897 | 1935 | 1917 | Georgian | Male | |
Sargis Lukashin | Сергей Лукашин | New | Not | 1883 | 1937 | 1905 | Armenian | Male | |
Isidore Lyubimov | Исидор Любимов | New | Member | 1882 | 1937 | 1902 | Russian | Male | — |
Alexander Markov | Александр Марков | Candidate | Candidate | 1877 | 1935 | 1898 | Russian | Male | — |
Dmitry Matveyev | Дмитрий Матвеев | New | Not | 1900 | 1937 | 1920 | Russian | Male | — |
Grigory Melnichansky | Григорий Мельничанский | New | Candidate | 1886 | 1937 | 1902 | Jewish [42] | Male | — |
Ivan Moskvin | Иван Москвин | Candidate | Member | 1890 | 1937 | 1911 | Russian | Male | |
Gazanfar Musabekov | Газанфар Мусабеков | New | Candidate | 1888 | 1938 | 1918 | Azerbaijani | Male | |
Klavdiya Nikolayeva | Клавдия Николаева | Member | Candidate | 1893 | 1944 | 1909 | Russian | Female | |
Ivan Nosov | Иван Носов | New | Candidate | 1888 | 1937 | 1905 | Russian | Male | — |
Georgy Oppokov | Георгий Оппоков | New | Member | 1888 | 1938 | 1903 | Russian | Male | |
Mamia Orakhelashvili | Мамия Орахелашвили | Candidate | Promoted | 1888 | 1937 | 1903 | Georgian | Male | |
Valerian Osinsky | Валериан Оболенский | New | Candidate | 1882 | 1938 | 1907 | Russian | Male | |
Pavel Postyshev | Григо́рій Петро́вський | New | Member | 1887 | 1939 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
Konstantin Rumyantsev | Константин Румянцев | Candidate | Candidate | 1889 | 1939 | 1916 | Russian | Male | — |
Kuzma Ryndin | Кузьма Рындин | Candidate | Candidate | 1893 | 1938 | 1915 | Russian | Male | — |
Boris Semenov | Борис Семёнов | New | Candidate | 1890 | 1937 | 1907 | Russian | Male | — |
Alexander Serebrovsky | Александр Серебровский | New | Candidate | 1884 | 1938 | 1903 | Russian | Male | |
Mykola Skrypnyk | Микола Скрипник | Candidate | Member | 1872 | 1933 | 1898 | Ukrainian | Male | |
Konstantin Strievsky | Константин Стриевский | Candidate | Member | 1885 | 1938 | 1902 | Belarusian | Male | — |
Sergei Syrtsov | Сергей Сырцов | Candidate | Member | 1893 | 1937 | 1913 | Russian | Male | |
Fyodor Ugarov | Фёдор Угаров | New | Member | 1885 | 1932 | 1905 | Russian | Male | — |
Józef Unszlicht | Ио́сиф У́ншлихт | New | Candidate | 1879 | 1938 | 1907 | Jewish [43] | Male | |
Mikhail Uryvayev | Михаил Урываев | New | Candidate | 1887 | 1937 | 1917 | Russian | Male | — |
Iosif Vareikis | Иосиф Варейкис | Candidate | Candidate | 1894 | 1938 | 1913 | Lithuanian | Male | — |
Andrei Zhdanov | Андрей Жданов | New | Candidate | 1896 | 1948 | 1915 | Russian | Male |
The Politburo of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was in session from 1990 to 1991.
The Politburo of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was in session from 1927 to 1930.
The Politburo of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was in session from 1 January 1926 to 19 December 1927.
The Politburo of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was in session from 2 June 1924 to 1 January 1926.
The Politburo of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was in session from 26 April 1923 to 2 June 1924.
The Politburo of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was in session from 2 April 1922 to 25 April 1923.
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).
The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 9th Congress, and sat from 5 April 1920 until 16 March 1921. The CC 1st Plenary Session renewed the composition of the Politburo, Secretariat and the Organizational Bureau (OB) of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
The Politburo of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was in session from 16 March 1921 to 3 April 1922.
The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 7th Congress, and sat from 8 March 1918 until 23 March 1919. The CC 1st Plenary Session renewed the composition of the Bureau, Secretariat and the Organizational Bureau (OB) of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
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).
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).
The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 6th Congress, and sat from 3 August 1917 until 8 March 1918. The CC 1st Plenary Session established the Narrow Composition (abolished October 1917), the Politburo (abolished November 1917) and the Bureau (established in November 1917), while sanctioning the establishment of the Secretariat on the orders of the Narrow Composition.
The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 12th Congress, and sat from 25 April 1923 until 31 May 1924. The CC 1st Plenary Session renewed the composition of the Politburo, Secretariat and the Organizational Bureau (OB) of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 13th Congress, and sat from 2 June 1924 until 31 December 1925. The CC 1st Plenary Session renewed the composition of the Politburo, Secretariat and the Organizational Bureau (OB) of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 15th Congress, and sat from 19 December 1927 until 13 July 1930. The CC 1st Plenary Session renewed the composition of the Politburo, Secretariat and the Organizational Bureau (OB) of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 16th Congress, and sat from 13 July 1930 until 10 February 1934. Its 1st Plenary Session elected the Politburo, Secretariat and Orgburo. The 16th Congress was the first party convention since the 13th Congress which saw no organized opposition, and the first congress in party history in which there was no opposition to the party leadership. Ukrainian historian Oleg Khlevniuk considers the period 1930–1934 to be a "transitional period" between collective leadership (referred to interchangeably by him as oligarchy) and Joseph Stalin's personal dictatorship (autocracy). The removal of Alexei Rykov, the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (SNK, the Soviet government), from the Politburo at the 1st Joint Plenary Session of the CC and the Central Control Commission (CCC) has been marked in historic literature as "the definitive Stalinization of that body [Politburo]" according to Khlevniuk.
The Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) sat from 10 February 1934 until the convening of the 18th Congress on 10 March 1939. Its 1st Plenary Session elected the Politburo, Secretariat and Orgburo. The 17th Congress was labelled the "Congress of Victors" to mark the success of the first five-year plan and the collectivization of agriculture. The CC 1st Plenary Session elected Joseph Stalin General Secretary of the Central Committee, and Lazar Kaganovich continued to serve as Stalin's deputy, an informal post referred to by Sovietologists as Second Secretary, and was empowered to manage party business and sign Politburo resolutions when Stalin was away from Moscow.
The Politburo of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was in session from 1930 to 1934.
The inner-composition of the 6th Congress was elected by the sixth composition of the Central Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks).
Plenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity (by clicking on the individual names on "The Central Committee elected by the XIV th Congress of the CPSU (b) 12.31.1925 members" reference), the Central Committee full- and candidate membership, Politburo membership, Secretariat membership and Orgburo membership were taken from these sources: