Central Committee of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) explained

Number:	Central Committee
of the 12th Congress
Start:	25 April 1923
End:	31 May 1924
Gs:	Joseph Stalin
Ss:	Vyacheslav Molotov
Ig:	Politburo 7 full & 4 candidates Secretariat: 6 members Orgburo: 9 full & 5 candidates
Apparatus:	Seven departments, six bureaus, one newspaper and one administrative post
Full:	40 full
Candidates:	17 candidates
Previous:	11th
Next:	13th

The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 12th Congress, and sat from 25 April 1923 until 31 May 1924. 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 ten CC plenary sessions and one joint CC–Central Control Commission (CCC) plenary sessions were held between the 12th Congress and the 13th 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"	26 April 1923	1 day
2nd Plenary Session	data-sort-value="2"	26–27 June 1923	2 days
3rd Plenary Session	data-sort-value="3"	4 July 1923	1 day
4th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="4"	23–25 September 1923	3 days
Joint Plenary Session	data-sort-value="5"	25–27 October 1923	3 days
5th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="6"	14–15 January 1924	2 days
6th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="7"	21–22 January 1924	2 days
7th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="8"	29, 31 January 1924	2 days
8th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="9"	3 February 1924	1 day
9th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="10"	31 March – 2 April 1924	3 days
10th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="11"	21 May 1924	1 day

Apparatus

Individuals employed by Central Committee's bureaus, departments and newspapers made up the apparatus between the 12th Congress and the 13th 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		Вильге́льм Кно́рин	25 April 1923	31 May 1924			Latvian	Male
Administrator of Affairs		Иван Ксенофонтов	25 April 1923	31 May 1924			Greek^[1]	Male
Agitation and Propaganda Department		Андрей Бубнов	25 April 1923	31 May 1924			Russian	Male
Bolshevik		Никола́й Буха́рин	3 January 1924	31 May 1924			Russian	Male
Bureau of the Secretariat	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Central Asian Bureau		Ян Рудзутак	25 April 1923	31 May 1924			Latvian	Male
Department for Work Among Women		Софья Смидович	25 April 1923	31 May 1924			Russian	Female
Department of Party History		Михаил Ольминский	25 April 1923	31 May 1924			Russian	Male
Far Eastern Bureau		Николай Кубяк	25 April 1923	31 May 1924			Russian	Male
Finance Department		М. И. Раскин	25 April 1923	31 May 1924			Russian	Male
Head of the Administration of Central Committee Affairs		Александр Поскрёбышев	25 April 1923	31 May 1924			Russian	Male
North-West Bureau		Иван Москвин	25 April 1923	31 May 1924			Russian	Male
Organizational and Instructional Department		Лазарь Каганович	25 April 1923	27 July 1923			Jewish^[2] ^[3] ^[4]	Male
		Иван Коротков	27 July 1923	31 May 1924			Russian	Male
Pravda		Никола́й Буха́рин	25 April 1923	31 May 1924			Russian	Male
Press Department		Я́ков Я́ковлев	February 1924	31 May 1924			Jewish^[5]	Male
Siberian Bureau		Станислав Косиор	25 April 1923	31 May 1924			Polish	Male
South-East Bureau		Анастас Микоян	25 April 1923	31 May 1924			Armenian	Male
Statistical Department		Станисла́в Струми́лин	25 April 1923	31 May 1924			Russian	Male
Ural Bureau		Моисей Харитонов	25 April 1923	1923			Jewish	Male

Composition

Members

Name! scope="col" class="unsortable"

Cyrillic	11th CC	13th CC				Nationality	Gender	Portrait
	Андрей Андреев	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1895	1971	1914	Russian	Male
	Никола́й Буха́рин	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1888	1938	1906	Russian	Male
	Влас Чубар	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1891	1939	1907	Ukrainian	Male
	Фе́ликс Дзержи́нский	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1877	1926	1906	Polish	Male
	Михаил Фрунзе			1885	1925	1904	Romanian-Russian^[6] ^[7]	Male
	Михаил Калинин			1875	1946	1898	Russian	Male
	Лев Ка́менев			1883	1936	1901	Jewish-Russian^[8] ^[9]	Male
	Моисей Харитонов			1887	1938	1905	Jewish^[10]	Male
	Серге́й Ки́ров			1886	1934	1904	Russian	Male
	Николай Комаров			1886	1937	1909	Russian	Male
	Иван Коротков			1885	1949	1905	Russian	Male
	Николай Кубяк			1881	1937	1898	Russian	Male
	Эммануил Квиринг			1888	1937	1912	Volga German	Male
	Александр Криницкий			1884	1937	1901	Jewish^[11] ^[12]	Male
	Владимир Ленин			1870	1924	1898	Russian	Male
	Дмитро Мануїльський			1883	1959	1903	Ukrainian	Male
	Василий Михайлов			1894	1937	1915	Russian	Male
	Анастас Микоян			1895	1978	1915	Armenian	Male
	Вячеслав Молотов			1890	1986	1906	Russian	Male
	Григо́рий Орджоники́дзе			1886	1937	1903	Georgian	Male
	Григо́рій Петро́вський			1878	1958	1898	Ukrainian	Male
	Юрій П'ятаков			1890	1937	1910	Russian	Male
	Карл Радек			1885	1939	1903	Jewish^[13]	Male
	Христиан Раковский			1873	1941	1917	Bulgarian	Male
	Ян Рудзутак			1887	1938	1905	Latvian	Male
	Алексей Рыков			1881	1938	1899	Russian	Male
	Александр Смирнов			1878	1938	1898	Russian	Male
	Григорий Сокольников			1888	1938	1905	Jewish^[14] ^[15]	Male
	Ио́сиф Ста́лин			1878	1953	1898	Georgian	Male
	Даниил Сулимов			1890	1937	1905	Russian	Male
	Михаил Томский			1880	1936	1904	Russian	Male
	Лев Тро́цкий			1879	1940	1917	Jewish^[16]	Male
	Алекса́ндр Цюру́па			1870	1928	1898	Ukrainian	Male
	Николай Угланов			1886	1937	1907	Russian	Male
	Константин Уханов			1891	1937	1907	Russian	Male
	Климент Ворошилов			1881	1969	1903	Russian	Male
	Григорий Евдокимов	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1884	1936	1903	Russian	Male
	Исаак Зеленский	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1890	1937	1906	Jewish^[17]	Male
	Петро Залуцький	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1887	1937	1907	Russian	Male
	Григо́рий Зино́вьев	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1883	1936	1901	Jewish	Male

Candidates

Name! scope="col" class="unsortable"

Cyrillic	11th CC	13th CC				Nationality	Gender	Portrait
	Алексей Бадаев	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1883	1951	1904	Russian	Male
	Андрей Бубнов	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1884	1938	1903	Russian	Male
	Михаил Чудов	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1893	1937	1913	Russian	Male
	Лазарь Каганович	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1893	1991	1911	Jewish	Male
	Николай Колотилов	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1885	1937	1903	Russian	Male
	Станислав Косиор	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1889	1939	1907	Polish	Male
	Дмитрий Лебедь	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1893	1937	1909	Russian	Male
	Иван Лепсе	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1889	1929	1904	Latvian	Male
	Александр Мясников	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1886	1925	1906	Armenian	Male
	Иван Морозов	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1889	1957	1908	Russian	Male
	Иван Москвин	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1890	1937	1911	Russian	Male
	Нарима́нов Нарима́н	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1870	1925	1905	Azerbaijani	Male
	Мамия Орахелашвили	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1888	1937	1903	Georgian	Male
	Иван Румянцев	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1886	1937	1905	Russian	Male
	Турар Рыскулов	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1894	1938	1917	Kazakh	Male
	Микола Скрипник	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1872	1933	1898	Ukrainian	Male
	Михаил Урываев	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1887	1937	1917	Russian	Male

References

General

Plenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity (by clicking on the individual names on "The Central Committee of the XIIth Congress of the RCP (B) 25/4/1923 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 XII-м съездом РКП(б) 25.4.1923, члены . knowbysight.info . The Central Committee of the XIIth Congress of the RCP (B) 25/4/1923 members . ru. 22 August 2015.
• Web site: Staff writer . Staff writer . ЕВРЕИ И ВЛАСТЬ В РОССИИ (1917-1924 гг.) . LDN - приватное собрание книг . Jews and Power in Russia (1917–1924 biennum) . ru. 22 August 2015 . 19 June 2008 .
• 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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3. Book: Riga, Liliana . The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire . Cambridge University Press . 2012 . 60, 70 and 303.
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6. Book: Service, Robert . Lenin, a Political Life: The Iron Ring . Indiana University Press . 1995 . 194.
7. Book: Riga, Liliana . The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire . Cambridge University Press . 303.
8. Book: Service, Robert . Stalin: A Biography . Harvard University Press . 2005 . 103.
9. Book: Lindemann, Albert S. . Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews . Cambridge University Press . 1997 . 430.
10. Web site: 1995 . Jewish Encyclopedia of Russia . 8 November 2023 . JewishGen Belarus SIG.
11. Web site: 1995 . Jewish Encyclopedia of Russia . JewishGen Belarus SIG.
12. Book: Riga, Liliana . The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire . Cambridge University Press . 2012 . 60 and 304.
13. Book: Lindemann, Albert S. . Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews . Cambridge University Press . 1997 . 432.
14. Web site: Сокольников Григорий Яковлевич . www.hrono.ru.
15. Book: Riga, Liliana . The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire . Cambridge University Press . 2012 . 60 and 305.
16. Book: Rubenstein, Joshua . Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life . Yale University Press . 2011 . 1.
17. Web site: 1995 . Jewish Encyclopedia of Russia . JewishGen Belarus SIG.