Central Committee of the 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party explained

Number:	Central Committee
of the 6th Congress
Start:	3 August 1917
End:	8 March 1918
Ts:	Elena Stasova
Full:	21 full
Candidates:	10 candidates
Previous:	7th Conf.
Next:	7th Cong.

The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 6th Congress, and sat from 3 August 1917 until 8 March 1918. The CC 1st Plenary Session established the Narrow Composition (abolished October 1917), the Politburo (abolished November 1917) and the Bureau (established in November 1917), while sanctioning the establishment of the Secretariat on the orders of the Narrow Composition.

Plenary sessions

Plenum! scope="col"

Date	Length
1st Plenary Session	data-sort-value="1"	4–5 August 1917	2 days
2nd Plenary Session	data-sort-value="1"	10 October 1917	1 day
3rd Plenary Session	data-sort-value="1"	16 October 1917	1 day
4th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="1"	20 October 1917	1 day
5th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="1"	24 October 1917	1 day
6th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="1"	7 November 1917	1 day
7th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="1"	29 November 1917	1 day
8th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="1"	11 December 1917	1 day
9th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="1"	9 January 1918	1 day
10th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="1"	22 February 1918	1 day
11th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="1"	23 February 1918	1 day

Composition

Members

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

Cyrillic	April CC	7th CC				Nationality	Gender	Portrait
	Ян Берзин	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1881	1938	1902	Latvian	Male
	Андрей Бубнов	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1884	1938	1903	Russian	Male
	Никола́й Буха́рин	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1888	1938	1906	Russian	Male
	Фе́ликс Дзержи́нский	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1877	1926	1906	Polish	Male
	Лев Ка́менев	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1883	1936	1901	Jewish-Russian^[1] ^[2]	Male
	Алекса́ндра Коллонта́й	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1872	1952	1915	Ukrainian-Finnish^[3]	Female
	Никола́й Крести́нский	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1883	1938	1901	Ukrainian^[4]	Male
	Владимир Ленин	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1870	1924	1898		Male
	Владимир Милютин	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1884	1937	1910	Russian	Male
	Матвей Муранов	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1873	1959	1904	Ukrainian	Male
	Ви́ктор Ноги́н	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1878	1924	1898	Russian	Male
	Алексей Рыков	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1881	1938	1899	Russian	Male
	Фёдор Серге́ев	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1883	1921	1914	Russian	Male
	Степан Шаумян	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1878	1918	1898	Armenian	Male
	Ивар Смилга	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1892	1938	1907	Latvian	Male
	Григорий Сокольников	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1888	1939	1905	Jewish^[5] ^[6]	Male
	Ио́сиф Ста́лин	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1878	1953	1898	Georgian	Male
	Я́ков Свердло́в	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1885	1919	1901	Jewish^[7] ^[8]	Male
	Лев Тро́цкий	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1879	1940	1917	Jewish^[9] ^[10]	Male
	Моисей Урицкий	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1873	1918	1917	Jewish^[11]	Male
	Григо́рий Зино́вьев	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1883	1936	1901	Jewish^[12] ^[13]	Male

Candidates

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

Cyrillic	April CC	7th CC				Nationality	Gender	Portrait
	Прокофий Джапаридзе	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1880	1918	1898	Georgian	Male
	Адо́льф Ио́ффе	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1883	1927	1910	Karaite^[14]	Male
	Алексей Киселёв	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1879	1937	1898	Russian	Male
	Гео́ргий Оппо́ков	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1888	1938	1903	Russian	Male
	Евге́ний Преображе́нский	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1886	1937	1903	Russian	Male
	Микола Скрипник	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1872	1933	1898	Ukrainian	Male
	Еле́на Ста́сова	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1873	1966	1898	Russian	Female
	Варвара Яковлева	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1884	1941	1904	Jewish	Female

Prospectives

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

Cyrillic	April CC	7th CC				Ethnicity	Gender	Portrait
	Валериан Оболенский	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1887	1938	1907	Russian	Male
	Ива́н Теодо́рович	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1875	1937	1898	Polish	Male

References

General

Plenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity (by clicking on the individual names on "The Central Committee elected by the VIth Party Congress (b) 3 (16) .8.1917 members" reference), the Central Committee full- and candidate membership, Bureau 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 VI-м съездом РСДРП(б) 3(16).8.1917, члены . knowbysight.info . The Central Committee elected by the VIth Party Congress (b) 3 (16) .8.1917 members . ru. 22 August 2015.
• 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.

Bibliography

• Book: Fainsod, Merle . Merle Fainsod . Hough, Jerry F. . Jerry F. Hough . CITEREFFainsodHough1979 . How the Soviet Union is Governed . . 1979 . 9780674410305 .
• Book: Simons, Williams . White, Stephens . Communist Party of the Soviet Union . Communist Party of the Soviet Union . The Party Statutes of the Communist World . Law in Eastern Europe . . 1984 . CITEREFSimonsWhite1984 . Chapter 3: Statute of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union . 413–435 . 9024729750 .

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: Riga, Liliana . The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire . Cambridge University Press . 2012 . 124 and 304.
4. Book: Marie, Jean-Jacques . Makers of the Russian Revolution: Biographies of Bolshevik Leaders . Cornell University Press . 1974 . 152.
5. Web site: Сокольников Григорий Яковлевич . www.hrono.ru.
6. Book: Riga, Liliana . The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire . Cambridge University Press . 2012 . 60 and 305.
7. Book: Riga, Liliana . The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire . Cambridge University Press . 2012 . 60 and 305.
8. Book: Lindemann, Albert S. . Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews . Cambridge University Press . 1997 . 431.
9. Book: Rubenstein, Joshua . Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life . Yale University Press . 2011 . 1.
10. Book: Riga, Liliana . The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire . Cambridge University Press . 2012 . 60 and 304.
11. Book: Lindemann, Albert S. . Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews . Cambridge University Press . 1997 . 431.
12. Book: Service, Robert . Stalin: A Biography . Harvard University Press . 2005 . 103.
13. Book: Lindemann, Albert S. . Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews . Cambridge University Press . 1997 . 430.
14. Book: Lindemann, Albert. Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews. 1997. Cambridge University Press. 9780521593694. 430.