Central Committee of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Appearance
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
[edit]Plenum | 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
[edit]Members
[edit]Name | 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
[edit]Name | 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
[edit]General
[edit]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.
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