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

Politburo of the 12th Congress
Start:	26 April 1923
End:	2 June 1924
Previous:	11th Politburo
Next:	13th Politburo

The Politburo of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was in session from 26 April 1923 to 2 June 1924.

Composition

Members

Name! scope="col" class="unsortable"
Cyrillic	11th POL	13th POL				Ethnicity	Gender	Portrait
	Лев Ка́менев	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1883	1936	1901	Jewish-Russian^[1] ^[2]	Male
	Владимир Ленин	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightYellow		1870	1924	1898	Russian	Male
	Алексей Рыков	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1881	1938	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	Male
	Григо́рий Зино́вьев	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1883	1936	1901	Jewish	Male

Candidates

Name! scope="col" class="unsortable"
Cyrillic	11th POL	13th POL				Ethnicity	Gender	Portrait
	Никола́й Буха́рин	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1888	1938	1906	Russian	Male
	Михаил Калинин	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1875	1946	1898	Russian	Male
	Вячеслав Молотов	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1890	1986	1906	Russian	Male
	Ян Рудзутак	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1887	1938	1905	Latvian	Male

Notes and References

Book: Service, Robert . Stalin: A Biography . Harvard University Press . 2005 . 103.
Book: Lindemann, Albert S. . Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews . Cambridge University Press . 1997 . 430.