Central Committee elected by the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 7th Congress, and sat from 8 March 1918 until 23 March 1919. The CC 1st Plenary Session renewed the composition of the Bureau, Secretariat and the Organizational Bureau (OB) of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

Central Committee elected by the 7th Congress
8 March 1918 – 23 March 1919
Executive Secretary	Yakov Sverdlov (1918–1919) Elena Stasova (1919)
Inner-groups	Politburo: 5 full & 2 candidates Secretariat: 2 members Orgburo: 3 members

Keys

	Indicates that the individual is female.
BY	Birth year.
DY	Death year.
PM	Party membership (when the individual joined the party).
B	Bureau member.
SC	Secretariat member.
OB	Orgburo member.
B(C)	The "(C)" refers to "Candidate member"

Meetings

Session of the Central Committee (8 March 1918) Session of the Central Committee (15 March 1918) Session of the Central Committee (30 March 1918) Session of the Central Committee (31 March 1918) Session of the Central Committee (31 March 1918) Session of the Central Committee (4 April 1918) Session of the Central Committee (7 April 1918) Session of the Central Committee (26 April 1918) Session of the Central Committee (3 May 1918) Emergency session of the Central Committee (6 May 1918) Session of the Central Committee (10 May 1918) Session of the Central Committee (13 May 1918) Session of the Central Committee (18 May 1918) Session of the Central Committee (19 May 1918) Session of the Central Committee (26 June 1918)

Session of the Central Committee (29 July 1918) Session of the Central Committee (14 September 1918) Session of the Central Committee (16 September 1918) Session of the Central Committee (2 October 1918) Session of the Central Committee (22 October 1918) Session of the Central Committee (25 October 1918) Session of the Central Committee (26 October 1918) Session of the Central Committee (25 December 1918) Session of the Central Committee (30 December 1918) Session of the Central Committee (16 January 1919) Session of the Central Committee (4 February 1919) Session of the Central Committee (14 March 1919) Evening session of the Central Committee (16 March 1919) Session of the Central Committee (17 March 1919)

Members

Full

Name Cyrillic	BY	DY	PM	Ethnicity	Portrait	First post held (during term)	CIM
Nikolai Bukharin Никола́й Буха́рин	1888	1938	1906	Russian		Editor-in-chief, Pravda	—
Felix Dzerzhinsky Фе́ликс Дзержи́нский	1877	1926	1906	Polish		Chairman, All-Russian Emergency Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage	—
Nikolay Krestinsky Никола́й Крести́нский	1883	1938	1901	Russian		People's Commissar for Finance of the Russian SFSR First Deputy Commissioner, State Bank of the Russian SFSR	OB
Mikhail Lashevich Александр Криницкий	1884	1937	1901	Russian-Jewish		Member, Petrograd Bureau	—
Vladimir Lenin Владимир Ленин	1870	1924	1898	Russian		Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR	B
Vasily Schmidt Сергей Чуцкаев	1886	1938	1905	Russian-German		Secretary, All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions Member, Presidium of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions	—
"Artyom" Fyodor Sergeyev Фёдор Серге́ев	1895	1921	1914	Russian		Chairman, General Secretariat of Ukraine	—
Ivar Smilga Ивар Смилга	1892	1938	1907	Latvian		Commissioner, Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR in Finland	—
Grigori Sokolnikov Григорий Сокольников	1888	1939	1905	Ukrainian-Jewish		Commissioner, State Bank of the Russian SFSR	B
Joseph Stalin Ио́сиф Ста́лин	1878	1953	1898	Georgian		People's Commissar for Nationalities of the Russian SFSR	B(C)
Elena Stasova Еле́на Ста́сова	1873	1966	1898	Russian		—	B, SC
Yakov Sverdlov Сергей Гусев	1885	1919	1901	Russian-Jewish		Chairman, Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets Chairman, Secretariat	B, SC, OB
Leon Trotsky Лев Тро́цкий	1879	1940	1917	Russian		People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Russian SFSR	B(C)
Mikhail Vladimirsky Михаи́л Влади́мирский	1874	1951	1898	Russian		Member, Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets	OB
Grigory Zinoviev Григо́рий Зино́вьев	1883	1936	1901	Russian-Jewish		Chairman, Executive Committee of the Petrograd Regional Soviet	—

Candidates

Name Cyrillic	BY	DY	PM	Ethnicity	Portrait	First post held (during term)
Jan Antonovich Berzin Ян Антонович Берзин	1881	1938	1902	Latvian		Member, Central Committee of the Social-Democracy of the Latvian Territory
Adolph Joffe Владимир Милютин	1883	1927	1910	Karaite		Head, Negotiations Team at Bresk
Aleksei Kiselyov Алексей Киселёв	1879	1937	1898	Russian		Member, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the Russian SFSR
Georgy Oppokov Гео́ргий Оппо́ков	1888	1938	1903	Russian		Member, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the Russian SFSR
Grigory Petrovsky Григо́рій Петро́вський	1878	1958	1898	Ukrainian		People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the Russian SFSR
Pyotr Stuchka Пётр Сту́чка	1865	1932	1906	Latvian		People's Commissar for Justice of the Russian SFSR
Moisei Uritsky Моисей Урицкий	1873	1918	1917	Russian-Jewish		Chairman, Petrograd Emergency Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage
Alexander Shliapnikov Алекса́ндр Шля́пников	1885	1937	1901	Russian		People's Commissar for Labor

References

General

Plenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity (by clicking on the individual names on "The Central Committee elected by the VIIth Congress of the RCP (B) 03.08.1918 members" reference), the Central Committee full- and candidate membership, Bureau 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.
• Staff writer. "Персональный состав Центрального комитета РСДРП – РСДРП(б) – РКП(б) – ВКП(б) – КПСС" [Membership of the Central Committee of the RSDLP – RSDLP (b) – RCP (b) – AUCP (b) – CPSU] (in Russian). knowbysight.info. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
• Staff writer. "Центральный Комитет, избранный VII-м съездом РКП(б) 8.3.1918, члены" [The Central Committee elected by the VIIth Congress of the RCP (B) 03.08.1918 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.
• Staff writer. "Секретариат ЦК РСДРП - РКП(б) - ВКП(б) - КПСС" [Secretariat of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (b) – RCP (b) – AUCP (b) – CPSU] (in Russian). Retrieved 21 June 2015.
• Staff writer. "Организационное бюро РКП(б) - ВКП(б)" [Organizational Bureau of the RCP (b) – AUCP (b)] (in Russian). Retrieved 21 June 2015.

Bibliography

• Fainsod, Merle; Hough, Jerry F. (1979). How the Soviet Union is Governed. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674410305.
• Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1984). "Chapter 3: Statute of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union". In Simons, Williams; White, Stephens (eds.). The Party Statutes of the Communist World. Law in Eastern Europe. Brill Publishers. pp. 413–435. ISBN 9024729750.

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