Politburo of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) explained

Number:	17th
Politburo
Start:	10 February 1934
End:	22 March 1939
Gs:	Joseph Stalin
Ss:	Vyacheslav Molotov (Jul.– Dec. 1930) Lazar Kaganovich (1930–1934)
Nop:	12 full & 9 candidates
Nos:	6 members
Nog:	12 full & 2 candidates
Previous:	16th Politburo
Next:	18th Politburo

The Politburo of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was in session from 1934 to 1939.

Composition

Members

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

Cyrillic	16th POL	18th POL				Ethnicity	Gender	Portrait
	Андрей Андреев	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1895	1971	1914	Russian	Male
	Влас Чубар	bgcolor = MistyRose		bgcolor = ffffbb		1891	1939	1907	Ukrainian	Male
	Лазарь Каганович	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1893	1991	1911	Jewish	Male
	Михаил Калинин	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1875	1946	1898	Russian	Male
	Серге́й Ки́ров	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = ffffbb		1886	1934	1904	Russian	Male
	Станислав Косиор	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LavenderBlush		1889	1939	1907	Polish	Male
	Валериан Куйбышев	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightYellow		1888	1935	1904	Russian	Male
	Анаста́с Микоя́н	bgcolor = MistyRose		bgcolor = LightGreen		1895	1978	1915	Armenian	Male
	Вячеслав Молотов	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1890	1986	1906	Russian	Male
	Григо́рий Орджоники́дзе	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = Khaki		1886	1937	1903	Georgian	Male
	Ио́сиф Ста́лин	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1878	1953	1898	Georgian	Male
	Климент Ворошилов	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1881	1969	1903	Russian	Male

Candidates

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

Cyrillic	16th POL	18th POL				Ethnicity	Gender	Portrait
	Влас Чубар	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = MistyRose		1891	1939	1907	Ukrainian	Male
	Роберт Эйхе	bgcolor = LavenderBlush		bgcolor = LavenderBlush		1890	1940	1905	Latvian	Male
	Никита Хрущёв	bgcolor = LavenderBlush		bgcolor = LightGreen		1894	1971	1918	Russian	Male
	Анаста́с Микоя́н	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = MistyRose		1895	1978	1915	Armenian	Male
	Григо́рій Петро́вський	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1878	1958	1898	Ukrainian	Male
	Григо́рій Петро́вський	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = ffffbb		1887	1939	1904	Russian	Male
	Ян Рудзутак	bgcolor = LightBlue		bgcolor = ffffbb		1887	1938	1905	Latvian	Male
	Николай Ежов	bgcolor = LavenderBlush		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1895	1940	1917	Russian-Lithuanian^[1] ^[2]	Male
	Андрей Жданов	bgcolor = LavenderBlush		bgcolor = LightGreen		1896	1948	1915	Russian	Male

Notes and References

1. Web site: Interrogations of Nikolai Ezhov, former People's Commissar for Internal Affairs . 4 November 2023.
2. Book: Jansen, Mark and Petrov, Nikita . Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940 . Hoover Institution Press . 2002 . 2 and 201.