Central Committee of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) explained

Number:	Central Committee
of the 9th Congress
Start:	5 April 1920
End:	16 March 1921
Rs:	Nikolai Krestinsky
Ig:	Politburo 5 full & 3 candidates Secretariat: 3 members Orgburo: 5 full & 2 candidates
Apparatus:	Seven bureaus, six departments and one administrative post
Full:	19 full
Candidates:	12 candidates
Previous:	8th
Next:	10th

The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 9th Congress, and sat from 5 April 1920 until 16 March 1921. 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

Plenum! scope="col"

Date	Length
1st Plenary Session	data-sort-value="1"	5 April 1920	1 day
2nd Plenary Session	data-sort-value="2"	8 April 1920	1 day
3rd Plenary Session	data-sort-value="3"	16 July 1920	1 day
4th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="4"	17 July 1920	1 day
5th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="5"	5 August 1920	1 day
6th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="6"	20 September 1920	1 day
7th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="7"	21 September 1920	1 day
8th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="8"	23 September 1920	1 day
9th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="9"	29 September 1920	1 day
10th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="10"	8 November 1920	1 day
11th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="11"	morning – 9 November 1920	1 day
12th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="12"	evening – 9 November 1920	1 day
13th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="13"	10 November 1920	1 day
14th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="14"	3 December 1920	1 day
15th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="15"	7–9 December 1920	3 days
16th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="16"	17 December 1920	1 day
17th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="17"	20 December 1920	1 day
18th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="18"	24 December 1920	1 day
19th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="19"	27 December 1920	1 day
20th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="20"	4 January 1921	1 day
21st Plenary Session	data-sort-value="21"	12 January 1921	1 day
22nd Plenary Session	data-sort-value="22"	24 January 1921	1 day
23rd Plenary Session	data-sort-value="23"	26 January 1921	1 day
24th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="24"	24–25 February 1921	2 days
25th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="25"	7 March 1921	1 day

Composition

Members

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

Cyrillic	8th CC	10th CC				Nationality	Gender	Portrait
	Андрей Андреев	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1895	1971	1914	Russian	Male
	Никола́й Буха́рин	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1888	1938	1906	Russian	Male
	Фе́ликс Дзержи́нский	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1877	1926	1906	Polish	Male
	Михаил Калинин	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1875	1946	1898	Russian	Male
	Лев Ка́менев	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1883	1936	1901	Jewish-Russian^[1] ^[2]	Male
	Никола́й Крести́нский	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1883	1938	1901	Ukrainian^[3]	Male
	Владимир Ленин	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1870	1924	1898	Russian	Male
	Евге́ний Преображе́нский	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1886	1937	1903	Russian	Male
	Карл Радек	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1885	1939	1903	Jewish^[4] ^[5]	Male
	Христиан Раковский	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1873	1941	1917	Bulgarian	Male
	Ян Рудзутак	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1887	1938	1905	Latvian	Male
	Алексей Рыков	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1881	1938	1899	Russian	Male
	Леонид Серебряков	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1890	1937	1905	Russian	Male
	Фёдор Серге́ев	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1895	1921	1914	Russian	Male
	Иван Смирнов	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1881	1936	1899	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^[6] ^[7]	Male
	Григо́рий Зино́вьев	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1883	1936	1901	Jewish^[8] ^[9]	Male

Candidates

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

Cyrillic	8th CC	10th CC				Nationality	Gender	Portrait
	Александр Белобородов	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1891	1938	1907	Russian	Male
	Сергей Гусев	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1874	1933	1898	Jewish^[10]	Male
	Владимир Милютин	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1884	1937	1910	Russian	Male
	Вячеслав Молотов	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1890	1986	1906	Russian	Male
	Матвей Муранов	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1873	1959	1904	Ukrainian	Male
	Ви́ктор Ноги́н	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1878	1924	1898	Russian	Male
	Григо́рій Петро́вський	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1878	1958	1898	Ukrainian	Male
	Осип Пятницкий	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1882	1938	1899	Jewish^[11]	Male
	Ивар Смилга	bgcolor = PeachPuff		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1892	1938	1907	Latvian	Male
	Пётр Сту́чка	bgcolor = PeachPuff		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1865	1932	1906	Latvian	Male
	Емельян Ярославский	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1878	1943	1898	Jewish^[12]	Male
	Петро Залуцький	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1887	1937	1907	Russian	Male

References

General

Plenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity (by clicking on the individual names on "The Central Committee, elected IXth Congress of the RCP (B) 04.05.1920 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 IX-м съездом РКП(б) 5.4.1920, члены . knowbysight.info . The Central Committee, elected IXth Congress of the RCP (B) 04.05.1920 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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Sources

Notes and References

1. Book: Service, Robert . Stalin: A Biography . Harvard University Press . 2005 . 103.
2. Book: Lindemann, Albert S. . Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews . Cambridge University Press . 1997 . 430.
3. Book: Marie, Jean-Jacques . Makers of the Russian Revolution: Biographies of Bolshevik Leaders . Cornell University Press . 1974 . 152.
4. Book: Lindemann, Albert S. . Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews . Cambridge University Press . 1997 . 432.
5. Book: Riga, Liliana . The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire . Cambridge University Press . 2012 . 60 and 304.
6. Book: Rubenstein, Joshua . Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life . Yale University Press . 2011 . 1.
7. Book: Riga, Liliana . The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire . Cambridge University Press . 2012 . 60 and 304.
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. Book: Riga, Liliana . The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire . Cambridge University Press . 2012 . 60, 80 and 303.
11. Book: Riga, Liliana . The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire . Cambridge University Press . 2012 . 60, 80 and 303.
12. Book: Riga, Liliana . The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire . Cambridge University Press . 2012 . 60 and 304.