Central Committee of the 8th Congress 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

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).

Plenary sessions

Plenary sessions of the Central Committee

Plenum	Date	Length
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

Members

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

Name	Cyrillic	7th CC	9th CC	Birth	Death	PM	Nationality	Gender	Portrait
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 [1] [2] [lower-alpha 1]	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

Candidate Members of the Central Committee of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

Name	Cyrillic	7th CC	9th CC	Birth	Death	PM	Nationality	Gender	Portrait
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

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, 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.

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Notes

1. His father was Jewish and his mother Russian