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

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).

Central Committee elected by the 12th Congress
Meeting hall of the 12th Party Congress
25 April 1923 – 31 May 1924
Officers of the Central Committee
General Secretary	Joseph Stalin
Second Secretary	Vyacheslav Molotov
Inner-groups	Politburo: 7 full & 4 candidates Secretariat: 6 members Orgburo: 9 full & 5 candidates

Keys

✡	Indicates that the individual was born into a Jewish family.
BY	Birth year.
DY	Death year.
PM	Party membership (when the individual joined the party).
PB	Politburo member.
SC	Secretariat member.
OB	Orgburo member.
CPB, CSC, COB	The first "C" in these initials refers to "Candidate member"

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).[1]

Plenum (CC)	Joint plenum (CC–CCC)	Start–end	Length
1st Plenary Session	—	26 April 1923	1 day
2nd Plenary Session	—	26–27 June 1923	2 days
3rd Plenary Session	—	4 July 1923	1 day
4th Plenary Session	—	23–25 September 1923	3 days
—	1st Joint Plenary Session	25–27 October 1923	3 days
5th Plenary Session	—	14–15 January 1924	2 days
6th Plenary Session	—	21–22 January 1924	2 days
7th Plenary Session	—	29, 31 January 1924	2 days
8th Plenary Session	—	3 February 1924	1 day
9th Plenary Session	—	31 March – 2 April 1924	3 days
10th Plenary Session	—	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.[2] The bureaus and departments were supervised by the Secretariat, and each secretary (member of the Secretariat) supervised a specific department.[3] The leaders of departments were officially referred to as Heads, while the titles of bureau leaders varied between chairman, first secretary and secretary.[4]

Institutions	Head				Took office	Left office	Tenure	Ethnicity
	Name Cyrillic	BY	DY	PM
Accounting and Distribution Department	Vilhelm Knorin Серге́й Сырцо́в	1890	1939	1910	25 April 1923	31 May 1924	1 year and 36 days	Latvian
Agitation and Propaganda Department	Andrei Bubnov Андрей Бубнов	1884	1938	1903	25 April 1923	31 May 1924	1 year and 36 days	Russian
Central Asian Bureau	Jānis Rudzutaks Ян Рудзутак	1887	1938	1905	25 April 1923	31 May 1924	1 year and 36 days	Latvian
Chief Administrator	Ivan Ksenofontov Иван Ксенофонтов	1884	1926	1903	25 April 1923	31 May 1924	1 year and 36 days	Russian
Chief Administrator	Alexander Poskrebyshev Александр Поскрёбышев	1891	1965	1917	25 April 1923	31 May 1924	1 year and 36 days	Russian
Far Eastern Bureau	Nikolay Kubiak Николай Кубяк	1881	1937	1898	25 April 1923	31 May 1924	1 year and 36 days	Russian
Finance Department	M.I. Ruskin М. И. Раскин	?	?	1918	25 April 1923	31 May 1924	1 year and 36 days	Russian
North-West Bureau	Ivan Moskvin Иван Москвин	1890	1937	1911	25 April 1923	31 May 1924	1 year and 36 days	Russian
Organizational-Instruction Department	Lazar Kaganovich Лазарь Каганович	1893	1991	1911	25 April 1923	27 July 1923	93 days	Russian✡
Organizational-Instruction Department	Ivan Korotkov Иван Коротков	1885	1949	1905	27 July 1923	31 May 1924	309 days	Russian
Party History Department	Mikhail Olminsky Михаил Ольминский	1863	1933	1898	25 April 1923	31 May 1924	1 year and 36 days	Russian
Pravda	Nikolai Bukharin Никола́й Буха́рин	1888	1938	1906	25 April 1923	31 May 1924	1 year and 36 days	Russian
Press Department	Yakov Yakovlev Я́ков Я́ковлев	1896	1938	1913	February 1924	31 May 1924	120 days	Russian✡
Siberian Bureau	Stanislav Kosior Станислав Косиор	1889	1939	1907	25 April 1923	31 May 1924	1 year and 36 days	Polish
South-East Bureau	Anastas Mikoyan Анастас Микоян	1895	1978	1915	25 April 1923	31 May 1924	1 year and 36 days	Armenian
Statistical Department	Stanislav Strumilin Михаил Ольминский	1877	1974	1923	25 April 1923	31 May 1924	1 year and 36 days	Russian
Ural Bureau	Moisei Kharitonov Моисей Харитонов	1887	1938	1905	25 April 1923	1923	250 days	Russian✡

Membership

Full

Name Cyrillic	BY	DY	PM	Ethnicity	Portrait	First post held (during term)	CIM
Andrey Andreyev Андрей Андреев	1895	1971	1914	Russian		Chairman, Central Committee of the Union of Railway Workers	SC, OB
Nikolai Bukharin Никола́й Буха́рин	1888	1938	1906	Russian		Editor-in-chief, Pravda	COB
Vlas Chubar Влас Чубар	1891	1939	1907	Ukrainian		Chairman, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the Ukrainian SSR Member, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy	—
Felix Dzerzhinsky Фе́ликс Дзержи́нский	1877	1926	1906	Polish		Chairman, State Political Directorate of the Russian SFSR People's Commissar for Railways of the Russian SFSR	OB
Grigory Evdokimov Григорий Евдокимов	1884	1936	1903	Russian		First Secretary, Petrograd Regional Committee	—
Mikhail Frunze Михаил Фрунзе	1885	1925	1904	Russian-Moldovan		Commander, Ukrainian Military District	—
Mikhail Kalinin Михаил Калинин	1875	1946	1898	Russian		Chairman, Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets Member, Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets	COB, COB
Lev Kamenev Лев Ка́менев	1883	1936	1901	Russian		Deputy Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR Deputy Chairman, Council of Labor and Defense of the Russian SFSR Chairman, Executive Committee of the Moscow Regional Soviet	PB
Moisei Kharitonov Моисей Харитонов	1887	1938	1905	Russian✡		Secretary, Ural Bureau	—
Sergey Kirov Серге́й Ки́ров	1886	1934	1904	Russian		First Secretary, Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Azerbaijan	—
Nikolay Komarov Николай Комаров	1886	1937	1909	Russian	—	Secretary, Executive Committee of the Petrograd Regional Soviet	—
Ivan Korotkov Иван Коротков	1885	1949	1905	Russian	—	First Secretary, Ivanovo-Voznesensky Regional Committee	COB
Nikolai Kubiak Николай Кубяк	1881	1937	1898	Russian		Secretary, Far Eastern Bureau	—
Emanuel Kviring Эммануил Квиринг	1888	1937	1912	Volga German		First Secretary, Donetsk Regional Committee	—
Mikhail Lashevich Александр Криницкий	1884	1937	1901	Russian ✡		Chairman, Siberian Revolutionary Committee	—
Vladimir Lenin Владимир Ленин	1870	1924 ^[note 1]	1898	Russian		Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR	PB
Dmitry Manuilsky Дмитро Мануїльський	1883	1959	1903	Ukrainian		First Secretary, Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine	—
Vasily Mikhailov Василий Михайлов	1894	1937	1915	Russian	—	First Secretary, Zamoskvorechye District Committee	CSC, COB
Anastas Mikoyan Анастас Микоян	1895	1978	1915	Armenian		Secretary, South-East Bureau	—
Vyacheslav Molotov Вячеслав Молотов	1890	1986	1906	Russian		—	COB, SC, OB
Grigol Ordzhonikidze Григо́рий Орджоники́дзе	1886	1937	1903	Georgian		First Secretary, Transcaucasian Regional Committee	—
Grigory Petrovsky Григо́рій Петро́вський	1878	1958	1898	Ukrainian		Chairman, Central Executive Committee of the All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets Member, Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets	—
Georgy Pyatakov Юрій П'ятаков	1890	1937	1910	Russian		Chairman, Main Concession Committee	—
Karl Radek Карл Радек	1885	1939	1903	Lithuanian✡		Secretary, Executive Committee of the Communist International	—
Christian Rakovsky Христиан Раковский	1873	1941	1917	Bulgarian		Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR	—
Jānis Rudzutaks Ян Рудзутак	1887	1938	1905	Latvian		Chairman, Central Asian Bureau	COB, SC, OB
Alexei Rykov Алексей Рыков	1881	1938	1899	Russian		Deputy Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR Deputy Chairman, Council of Labor and Defense of the Russian SFSR	PB, OB
Alexander Smirnov Александр Смирнов	1878	1938	1898	Russian	—	People's Commissar for Agriculture of the Russian SFSR	—
Grigori Sokolnikov Григорий Сокольников	1888	1938	1905	Ukrainian✡		People's Commissar for Finance of the Russian SFSR	—
Joseph Stalin Ио́сиф Ста́лин	1878	1953	1898	Georgian		General Secretary, Central Committee	PB, SC, OB
Daniil Sulimov Даниил Сулимов	1890	1937	1905	Russian		Chairman, Ural Economic Committee	—
Mikhail Tomsky Михаил Томский	1880	1936	1904	Russian		Chairman, Council of Trade Unions of the Russian SFSR Member, Presidium of the Council of Trade Unions	PB, OB
Leon Trotsky Лев Тро́цкий	1879	1940	1917	Russian✡		People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the Russian SFSR Chairman, Revolutionary Military Council of the Russian SFSR	PB, OB
Alexander Tsiurupa Алекса́ндр Цюру́па	1870	1928	1898	Ukrainian		Deputy Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR Deputy Chairman, Council of Labor and Defense of the Russian SFSR	—
Nikolai Uglanov Николай Угланов	1886	1937	1907	Russian	—	First Secretary, Nizhny Novgorod Regional Committee	—
Konstantin Ukhanov Константин Уханов	1891	1937	1907	Russian	—	Chairman, Board of the Electrotechnical Trust	—
Kliment Voroshilov Климент Ворошилов	1881	1969	1903	Russian		Commander, North Caucasus Military District	—
Isaak Zelensky Исаак Зеленский	1890	1937	1906	Russian✡	—	First Secretary, Moscow Regional Committee	CSC, OB
Pyotr Zalutsky Петро Залуцький	1887	1937	1907	Russian		Chairman, Petrograd Council of Trade Unions	—
Grigory Zinoviev Григо́рий Зино́вьев	1883	1936	1901	Russian✡		Chairman, Executive Committee of the Communist International Chairman, Executive Committee of the Leningrad Regional Soviet	PB, OB

Candidates

Name Cyrillic	BY	DY	PM	Ethnicity	Portrait	First post held (during term)
Aleksei Badayev Алексей Бадаев	1883	1951	1904	Russian		Chairman, Petrograd Union of Consumer Societies
Andrei Bubnov Андрей Бубнов	1884	1938	1903	Russian		Head, Agitation and Propaganda Department
Mikhail Chudov Михаил Чудов	1893	1937	1913	Russian	—	First Secretary, Tver Regional Committee
Lazar Kaganovich Лазарь Каганович	1893	1991	1911	Russian✡		Head, Organizational-Instruction Department
Nikolay Kolotilov Николай Колотилов	1885	1937	1903	Russian	—	First Secretary, Donskoy Regional Committee
Stanislav Kosior Станислав Косиор	1889	1939	1907	Polish		Secretary, Siberian Bureau
Dimitry Lebed Дмитрий Лебедь	1893	1937	1909	Ukrainian	—	Second Secretary, Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine
Ivan Lepse Иван Лепсе	1889	1929	1904	Latvian	—	Chairman, Central Committee of the Union of Metalworkers
Alexander Miasnikian Александр Мясников	1886	1925	1906	Armenian		First Secretary, Transcaucasian Regional Committee
Ivan Morozov Александр Марков	1889	1959	1908	Russian	—	First Secretary, Samara Regional Committee
Ivan Moskvin Иван Москвин	1890	1937	1911	Russian	—	Second Secretary, North-West Bureau
Nariman Narimanov Нарима́нов Нарима́н	1870	1925	1905	Azerbaijani		Chairman, Central Executive Committee of the All-Transcaucasian Congress of Soviets Member, Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets
Mamia Orakhelashvili Мамия Орахелашвили	1888	1937	1903	Georgian		Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Transcaucasian SFSR
Ivan Rumyantsev Иван Румянцев	1886	1937	1905	Russian	—	First Secretary, Motovilikha District Committee
Turar Ryskulov Турар Рыскулов	1894	1938	1917	Kazakh	—	Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Turkestan ASSR
Mykola Skrypnyk Микола Скрипник	1872	1933	1898	Ukrainian		People's Commissar for Justice of the Ukrainian SSR Procurator General of the Ukrainian SSR
Mikhail Uryvayev Михаил Урываев	1887	1937	1917	Russian	—	Director, Kolomna Machine-Building Plant

Notes

1.^ Vladimir Lenin died of natural causes on 21 January 1924.

References

General

Plenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity (by clicking on the individual names on "The Central Committee elected by the XII th 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:

• Staff writer. "Съезды, конференции, пленумы и заседания РСДРП – РСДРП(б) – РКП(б) – ВКП(б) – КПСС" [Congresses, conferences, plenary meetings and meetings of the RSDLP – RSDLP (b) – RCP (b) – AUCP (b) – CPSU] (in Russian). knowbysight.info. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
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• Staff writer. "Центральный Комитет, избранный XII-м съездом РКП(б) 25.4.1923, члены" [The Central Committee elected by the XII th Congress of the RCP (B) 25/4/1923 members] (in Russian). knowbysight.info. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
• Staff writer (19 June 2008). "ЕВРЕИ И ВЛАСТЬ В РОССИИ (1917-1924 гг.)" [Jews and Power in Russia (1917–1924 biennum)] (in Russian). LDN - приватное собрание книг. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
• 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] (in Russian). Retrieved 21 June 2015.
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