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Central Committee
of the 8th Congress
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9th →
23 March 1919 – 5 April 1920
Inner-groupsPolitburo: 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

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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

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Members

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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

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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

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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

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General

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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:

Bibliography

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Sources

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  1. ^ Service, Robert (2005). Stalin: A Biography. Harvard University Press. p. 103.
  2. ^ Lindemann, Albert S. (1997). Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews. Cambridge University Press. p. 430.
  3. ^ Marie, Jean-Jacques (1974). Makers of the Russian Revolution: Biographies of Bolshevik Leaders. Cornell University Press. p. 152.
  4. ^ Lindemann, Albert S. (1997). Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews. Cambridge University Press. p. 432.
  5. ^ Riga, Liliana (2012). The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire. Cambridge University Press. pp. 60 and 304.
  6. ^ Rubenstein, Joshua (2011). Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life. Yale University Press. p. 1.
  7. ^ a b Riga, Liliana (2012). The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire. Cambridge University Press. pp. 60 and 304.
  8. ^ Service, Robert (2005). Stalin: A Biography. Harvard University Press. p. 103.
  9. ^ Lindemann, Albert S. (1997). Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews. Cambridge University Press. p. 430.
  10. ^ 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

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  1. ^ His father was Jewish and his mother Russian
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