Central Committee of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) explained

Number:	Central Committee
of the 10th Congress
Start:	16 March 1921
End:	2 April 1922
Rs:	Vyacheslav Molotov
Ig:	Politburo 7 full & 3 candidates Secretariat: 3 members Orgburo: 7 full & 3 candidates
Apparatus:	Seven bureaus, six departments and one administrative post
Full:	25 full
Candidates:	15 candidates
Previous:	9th
Next:	11th

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).

Plenums

The CC was not a permanent institution. It convened plenary sessions, of which nine CC plenary sessions and one joint CC–Central Control Commission (CCC) plenary sessions were held between the 10th Congress and the 11th 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).

Plenum! scope="col"
Date	Length
1st Plenary Session	data-sort-value="1"	16 March 1921	1 day
2nd Plenary Session	data-sort-value="2"	16–18 May 1921	3 days
3rd Plenary Session	data-sort-value="e"	28 May 1921	1 day
4th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="4"	8 August 1921	1 day
1st Joint Plenary Session	data-sort-value="5"	9 August 1921	1 day
5th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="6"	9 August 1921	1 day
6th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="7"	10 August 1921	1 day
7th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="8"	18 December 1921	1 day
8th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="9"	28 December 1921	1 day
9th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="10"	25 March 1922	1 day

Apparatus

Individuals employed by Central Committee's bureaus, departments and newspapers made up the apparatus between the 10th Congress and the 11th Congress. The bureaus and departments were supervised by the Secretariat, and each secretary (member of the Secretariat) supervised a specific department. The leaders of departments were officially referred to as Heads, while the titles of bureau leaders varied between chairman, first secretary and secretary.

Institution! scope="col"
Leader	Cyrillic	Took office	Left office	Length of tenure	Nationality	Gender
Accounting and Distribution Department		Серге́й Сырцо́в	16 March 1921	2 April 1922			Russian	Male
Administrator of Affairs		Павел Горбунов	16 March 1921	2 April 1922			Russian	Male
Agitation and Propaganda Department	Lev Sosnovsky	Лев Сосновский	16 March 1921	2 April 1922			Jewish^[1]	Male
Bureau of the Secretariat		Николай Смирнов	16 March 1921	2 April 1922			Russian	Male
Caucasian Bureau		Григо́рий Орджоники́дзе	16 March 1921	2 April 1922			Georgian	Male
Department for Work Among Women		Алекса́ндра Коллонта́й	16 March 1921	2 April 1922			Ukrainian-Finnish^[2]	Female
Department of Party History		Михаил Ольминский	16 March 1921	2 April 1922			Russian	Male
Far Eastern Bureau	Pyotr Anokhin	Пётр Анохин	16 March 1921	2 April 1922			Russian	Male
Finance Department
Organizational and Instructional Department		Петро Залуцький	16 March 1921	2 April 1922			Russian	Male
Siberian Bureau		Иван Смирнов	16 March 1921	2 April 1922			Russian	Male
South-East Bureau		Анастас Микоян	16 March 1921	2 April 1922			Armenian	Male
Statistical Department		Станисла́в Струми́лин	16 March 1921	2 April 1922			Russian	Male
Turkestan Bureau		Георгий Сафаров	16 March 1921	2 April 1922			Armenian-Polish^[3]	Male
Ural Bureau		Иван Тунтул	16 March 1921	2 April 1922			Latvian	Male
Ural Industrial Bureau		Даниил Сулимов	16 March 1921	2 April 1922			Russian	Male

Composition

Members

Name! scope="col" class="unsortable"
Cyrillic	9th CC	11th CC		Nationality	Gender	Portrait
	Никола́й Буха́рин	bgcolor = Salmon	bgcolor = LightGreen	1888	1938	1906	Russian	Male
	Фе́ликс Дзержи́нский	bgcolor = Salmon	bgcolor = LightGreen	1877	1926	1906	Polish	Male
	Михаил Фрунзе	bgcolor = LightGreen	bgcolor = LightGreen	1885	1925	1904	Romanian-Russian^[4] ^[5]	Male
	Михаил Калинин	bgcolor = Salmon	bgcolor = LightGreen	1875	1946	1898	Russian	Male
	Лев Ка́менев	bgcolor = Salmon	bgcolor = LightGreen	1883	1936	1901	Jewish-Russian^[6] ^[7]	Male
	Николай Комаров	bgcolor = LightGreen	bgcolor = #B2FFFF	1886	1937	1909	Russian	Male
	Иван Кутузов	bgcolor = LightGreen	bgcolor = PeachPuff	1885	1937	1906	Russian	Male
	Владимир Ленин	bgcolor = Salmon	bgcolor = LightGreen	1870	1924	1898	Russian	Male
	Василий Михайлов	bgcolor = Salmon	bgcolor = PeachPuff	1894	1937	1915	Russian	Male
	Вячеслав Молотов	bgcolor = #B2FFFF	bgcolor = LightGreen	1890	1986	1906	Russian	Male
	Григо́рий Орджоники́дзе	bgcolor = LightGreen	bgcolor = LightGreen	1886	1937	1903	Georgian	Male
	Григо́рій Петро́вський	bgcolor = #B2FFFF	bgcolor = LightGreen	1878	1958	1898	Ukrainian	Male
	Карл Радек	bgcolor = Salmon	bgcolor = LightGreen	1885	1939	1903	Jewish^[8] ^[9]	Male
	Христиан Раковский	bgcolor = Salmon	bgcolor = LightGreen	1873	1941	1917	Bulgarian	Male
	Ян Рудзутак	bgcolor = Salmon	bgcolor = LightGreen	1887	1938	1905	Latvian	Male
	Алексей Рыков	bgcolor = Salmon	bgcolor = LightGreen	1881	1938	1899	Russian	Male
	Фёдор Серге́ев	bgcolor = Salmon	bgcolor = PeachPuff	1895	1921	1914	Russian	Male
	Алекса́ндр Шля́пников	bgcolor = LightGreen	bgcolor = PeachPuff	1885	1937	1901	Russian	Male
	Ио́сиф Ста́лин	bgcolor = Salmon	bgcolor = LightGreen	1878	1953	1898	Georgian	Male
	Михаил Томский	bgcolor = Salmon	bgcolor = LightGreen	1880	1936	1904	Russian	Male
	Лев Тро́цкий	bgcolor = Salmon	bgcolor = LightGreen	1879	1940	1917	Jewish^[10]	Male
	Иван Тунтул	bgcolor = LightGreen	bgcolor = PeachPuff	1892	1938	1907	Latvian	Male
	Климент Ворошилов	bgcolor = LightGreen	bgcolor = LightGreen	1881	1969	1903	Russian	Male
	Емельян Ярославский	bgcolor = #B2FFFF	bgcolor = LightGreen	1878	1943	1898	Jewish	Male
	Григо́рий Зино́вьев	bgcolor = Salmon	bgcolor = LightGreen	1883	1936	1901	Jewish^[11] ^[12]	Male

Candidates

Name! scope="col" class="unsortable"
Cyrillic	9th CC	11th CC		Nationality	Gender	Portrait
	Влас Чубар	bgcolor = LightGreen	bgcolor = LightGreen	1891	1939	1907	Ukrainian	Male
	Сергей Гусев	bgcolor = #B2FFFF	bgcolor = #B2FFFF	1874	1933	1898	Jewish^[13]	Male
	Серге́й Ки́ров	bgcolor = LightGreen	bgcolor = #B2FFFF	1886	1934	1904	Russian	Male
	Алексей Киселёв	bgcolor = LightGreen	bgcolor = #B2FFFF	1879	1937	1898	Russian	Male
	Валериан Куйбышев	bgcolor = LightGreen	bgcolor = LightGreen	1888	1935	1904	Russian	Male
	Владимир Милютин	bgcolor = #B2FFFF	bgcolor = PeachPuff	1884	1937	1910	Russian	Male
	Валериан Оболенский	bgcolor = LightGreen	bgcolor = PeachPuff	1887	1938	1907	Russian	Male
	Георгий Сафаров	bgcolor = LightGreen	bgcolor = #B2FFFF	1891	1942	1908	Armenian-Polish	Male
	Василий Шмидт	bgcolor = LightGreen	bgcolor = #B2FFFF	1886	1938	1905	German^[14]	Male
	Иван Смирнов	bgcolor = LightGreen	bgcolor = PeachPuff	1881	1936	1899	Russian	Male
	Даниил Сулимов	bgcolor = LightGreen	bgcolor = #B2FFFF	1890	1937	1905	Russian	Male
	Николай Угланов	bgcolor = LightGreen	bgcolor = PeachPuff	1886	1937	1907	Russian	Male
	Петро Залуцький	bgcolor = #B2FFFF	bgcolor = PeachPuff	1887	1937	1907	Russian	Male
	Исаак Зеленский	bgcolor = LightGreen	bgcolor = LightGreen	1890	1937	1906	Jewish^[15] ^[16]	Male

References

General

Plenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity (by clicking on the individual names on "The Central Committee, elected X th Congress of the RCP (B) 16/3/1921 members" reference), the Central Committee full- and candidate membership, Politburo membership, Secretariat membership and Orgburo membership were taken from these sources:

Web site: Staff writer . Staff writer . Съезды, конференции, пленумы и заседания РСДРП – РСДРП(б) – РКП(б) – ВКП(б) – КПСС. knowbysight.info . Congresses, conferences, plenary meetings and meetings of the RSDLP – RSDLP (b) – RCP (b) – AUCP (b) – CPSU . ru. 22 August 2015.
Web site: Staff writer . Staff writer . Персональный состав Центрального комитета РСДРП – РСДРП(б) – РКП(б) – ВКП(б) – КПСС . knowbysight.info . Membership of the Central Committee of the RSDLP – RSDLP (b) – RCP (b) – AUCP (b) – CPSU . ru. 22 August 2015.
Web site: Staff writer . Staff writer . Центральный Комитет, избранный X-м съездом РКП(б) 16.3.1921, члены . knowbysight.info . The Central Committee, elected X th Congress of the RCP (B) 16/3/1921 members . ru. 22 August 2015.
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Web site: Staff writer . 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 . ru. 21 June 2015.
Web site: Staff writer . Staff writer . Секретариат ЦК РСДРП - РКП(б) - ВКП(б) - КПСС . Secretariat of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (b) – RCP (b) – AUCP (b) – CPSU . ru. 21 June 2015.
Web site: Staff writer . Staff writer . Организационное бюро РКП(б) - ВКП(б) . Organizational Bureau of the RCP (b) – AUCP (b) . ru. 21 June 2015.

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