| Date |
Comments |
| 3 March 1981 |
Yuri Andropov, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Viktor Grishin, Andrei Gromyko, Andrei Kirilenko, Dinmukhamed Konayev, Arvīds Pelše, Grigory Romanov, Mikhail Suslov, Nikolai Tikhonov, Dmitriy Ustinov, Konstantin Chernenko and Volodymyr Shcherbytsky elected full members; Heydar Aliyev, Pyotr Demichev, Tikhon Kiselyov, Vasily Kuznetsov, Boris Ponomarev, Sharof Rashidov, Mikhail Solomentsev and Eduard Shevardnadze elected candidate members. |
| 25 January 1982 |
Suslov dies. |
| 24 May 1982 |
Vladimir Dolgikh elected candidate member. |
| 10 November 1982 |
Brezhnev dies. |
| 22 November 1982 |
Kirilenko relieved of duties; Aliyev elected full member. |
| 11 January 1983 |
Kiselyov dies. |
| 29 May 1983 |
Pelše dies. |
| 15 June 1983 |
Vitaly Vorotnikov elected candidate member. |
| 31 October 1983 |
Rashidov dies. |
| 26 December 1983 |
Vorotnikov and Solomentsev elected full members; Viktor Chebrikov elected candidate member. |
| 9 February 1984 |
Andropov dies. |
| 20 December 1984 |
Ustinov dies. |
| 10 March 1985 |
Chernenko dies. |
| 23 April 1985 |
Yegor Ligachev, Nikolai Ryzhkov and Chebrikov elected full members; Sergei Sokolov elected candidate member. |
| 1 July 1985 |
Romanov relieved of duties; Shevardnadze elected full member. |
| 15 October 1985 |
Tikhonov relieved of duties; Nikolai Talyzin elected candidate member. |
| 18 February 1986 |
Grishin relieved of duties; Boris Yeltsin elected candidate member. |
| 6 March 1986 |
Aliyev, Vorotnikov, Gorbachev, Gromyko, Lev Zaykov, Konayev, Ligachev, Ryzhkov, Solomentsev, Chebrikov, Shevardnadze and Shcherbitsky elected full members; Demichev, Dolgikh, Yeltsin, Nikolay Slyunkov, Sokolov, Yuri Solovyov and Talyzin elected candidate members. |
| 28 January 1987 |
Konayev relieved of duties; Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev elected candidate member. |
| 26 June 1987 |
Sokolov relieved of duties; Slyunkov, Yakovlev and Viktor Nikonov elected full members; Dmitry Yazov elected candidate member. |
| 21 October 1987 |
Aliyev relieved of duties. |
| 14 February 1988 |
Yeltsin relieved of duties; Yuri Maslyukov and Georgi Razumovsky elected candidate members. |
| 30 September 1988 |
Gromyko, Solomentsev, Demichev and Dolgikh relieved of duties; Vadim Medvedev elected full member; Alexandra Biryukova, Alexander Vlasov and Anatoly Lukyanov elected candidate members. |
| 20 September 1989 |
Nikonov, Chebrikov, Shcherbitsky, Solovyov and Talyzin relieved of duties; Vladimir Kryuchkov and Maslyukov elected full members; Yevgeny Primakov and Boris Pugo elected candidate members. |
| 9 December 1989 |
Vladimir Ivashko elected full member. |
