Central Committee elected by the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

Central Committee elected
by the 10th Congress

9th ← → 11th
Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Kliment Voroshilov standing with delegates to the 10th Party Congress
Duration	16 March 1921 – 2 April 1922
Responsible Secretary	Vyacheslav Molotov
Inner-groups	Politburo: 7 full & 3 candidates Secretariat: 3 members Orgburo: 7 full & 3 candidates
Apparatus	Seven bureaus, six departments and one administrative post
Members	25 full and 15 candidates

The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 10th Congress, and sat from 16 March 1921 until 2 April 1922. The CC 1st Plenary Session renewed the composition of the Politburo, Secretariat and the Organizational Bureau (OB) of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

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 nine CC plenary sessions and one joint CC–Central Control Commission (CCC) plenary sessions were held between the 10th Congress and the 11th 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).

Plenum (CC)	Joint plenum (CC–CCC)	Start–end	Length
1st Plenary Session	—	16 March 1921	1 day
2nd Plenary Session	—	16–18 May 1921	3 days
3rd Plenary Session	—	28 May 1921	1 day
4th Plenary Session	—	8 August 1921	1 day
—	1st Joint Plenary Session	9 August 1921	1 day
5th Plenary Session	—	9 August 1921	1 day
6th Plenary Session	—	10 August 1921	1 day
7th Plenary Session	—	18 December 1921	1 day
8th Plenary Session	—	28 December 1921	1 day
9th Plenary Session	—	25 March 1922	1 day

Apparatus

Individuals employed by Central Committee's bureaus, departments and newspapers made up the apparatus between the 10th Congress and the 11th Congress. The bureaus and departments were supervised by the Secretariat, and each secretary (member of the Secretariat) supervised a specific department. The leaders of departments were officially referred to as Heads, while the titles of bureau leaders varied between chairman, first secretary and secretary.

Institutions	Head				Took office	Left office	Tenure	Ethnicity
	Name Cyrillic	BY	DY	PM
Accounting and Distribution Department	Sergey Syrtsov Серге́й Сырцо́в	1893	1937	1913	16 March 1921	2 April 1922		Russian
Agitation and Propaganda Department	Lev Sosnowsky Лев Сосновский	1886	1937	1904	16 March 1921	2 April 1922		Russian
Caucasian Bureau	Grigol Ordzhonikidze Григо́рий Орджоники́дзе	1886	1937	1903	16 March 1921	2 April 1922		Russian
Chief Administrator	Pavel Gorbunov Павел Горбунов	1885	1937	1910	16 March 1921	2 April 1922		Russian
Far Eastern Bureau	Pyotr Anokhin Пётр Анохин	1891	1922	1908	16 March 1921	2 April 1922		Russian
Finance Department	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Office of the Secretariat	N.I. Smirnov Н. И. Смирнов	?	?	?	16 March 1921	2 April 1922		Russian
Organizational-Work Department	Pyotr Zalutsky Петро Залуцький	1887	1937	1907	16 March 1921	2 April 1922		Russian
Party History Department	Mikhail Olminsky Михаил Ольминский	1863	1933	1898	16 March 1921	2 April 1922		Russian
Siberian Bureau	Ivan Smirnov Иван Смирнов	1881	1936	1899	16 March 1921	2 April 1922		Russian
South-East Bureau	Anastas Mikoyan Анастас Микоян	1895	1978	1915	16 March 1921	2 April 1922		Armenian
Statistical Department	Stanislav Strumilin Михаил Ольминский	1877	1974	1923	16 March 1921	2 April 1922		Russian
Turkestan Bureau	Georgy Safarov Георгий Сафаров	1891	1942	1908	16 March 1921	2 April 1922		Russian
Ural Bureau	Ivan Tuntul Иван Тунтул	1892	1938	1907	16 March 1921	2 April 1922		Latvian
Ural Industrial Bureau	Daniil Sulimov Даниил Сулимов	1890	1937	1905	16 March 1921	2 April 1922		Russian

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	CPB
Felix Dzerzhinsky Фе́ликс Дзержи́нский	1877	1926	1906	Polish		People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the Russian SFSR Chairman, All-Russian Emergency Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage	OB
Mikhail Frunze Михаил Фрунзе	1885	1925	1904	Moldovan		Commander, Ukrainian Military District	—
Mikhail Kalinin Михаил Калинин	1875	1946	1898	Russian		Chairman, Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets	CPB, OB
Lev Kamenev Лев Ка́менев	1883	1936	1901	Russian✡		Chairman, Executive Committee of the Moscow Regional Soviet	PB
Nikolay Komarov Николай Комаров	1886	1937	1909	Russian	—	Chairman, Petrograd Emergency Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage	OB
Ivan Kutuzov Николай Комаров	1885	1937	1906	Russian	—	Chairman, Central Committee of the Union of Textile Workers	COB
Vladimir Lenin Владимир Ленин	1870	1924	1898	Russian		Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR Chairman, Council of Labor and Defense of the Russian SFSR	PB
Vasily Mikhailov Василий Михайлов	1894	1937	1915	Russian	—	Secretary, Moscow Union of Printers	SC, OB
Vyacheslav Molotov Вячеслав Молотов	1890	1986	1906	Russian		Responsible Secretary, Central Committee First Secretary, Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine	CPB, SC, OB
Grigol Ordzhonikidze Григо́рий Орджоники́дзе	1886	1937	1903	Georgian		Chairman, Caucasian Bureau	—
Grigory Petrovsky Григо́рій Петро́вський	1878	1958	1898	Ukrainian		Chairman, Central Executive Committee of the All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets	—
Karl Radek Карл Радек	1885	1939	1903	Lithuanian✡		Secretary, Executive Committee of the Communist International Chairman, Executive Committee of the Petrograd Regional Soviet	—
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		General Secretary, International Trade Union Council	OB
Alexei Rykov Алексей Рыков	1881	1938	1899	Russian		Chairman, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the Russian SFSR Member, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the Russian SFSR	OB
"Artyom" Fyodor Sergeyev Фёдор Серге́ев	1895	1921	1914	Russian		Chairman, Central Committee of the All-Russian Union of Miners	—
Alexander Shliapnikov Алекса́ндр Шля́пников	1885	1937	1901	Russian		Chairman, Central Committee of the All-Russian Union of Metalworkers	—
Joseph Stalin Ио́сиф Ста́лин	1878	1953	1898	Georgian	80px	People's Commissar for Nationalities Chairman, Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate	PB, OB
Mikhail Tomsky Михаил Томский	1880	1936	1904	Russian		Chairman, All-Russian Council of Trade Unions Member, Presidium of the All-Russian Council of Trade Unions	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 Member, Executive Committee of the Communist International	PB
Ivan Tuntul Иван Тунтул	1892	1938	1907	Latvian	—	Secretary, Ural Bureau	COB
Kliment Voroshilov Климент Ворошилов	1881	1969	1903	Russian		Member, Revolutionary Military Council Officer in 1st Cavalry Army	—
Yemelyan Yaroslavsky Емельян Ярославский	1878	1943	1898	Russian✡		Member, Siberian Bureau	SC, OB
Grigory Zinoviev Григо́рий Зино́вьев	1883	1936	1901	Russian✡		Chairman, Executive Committee of the Communist International Chairman, Executive Committee of the Petrograd Regional Soviet	PB

Candidates

Name Cyrillic	BY	DY	PM	Ethnicity	Portrait	First post held (during term)	CIM
Vlas Chubar Влас Чубар	1891	1939	1907	Ukrainian		Chairman, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the Ukrainian SSR Member, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the Ukrainian SSR	—
Sergey Gusev Сергей Гусев	1874	1933	1898	Russian✡		Head, Political Directorate of the Revolutionary Military Council	—
Sergey Kirov Серге́й Ки́ров	1886	1934	1904	Russian		Member, Caucasian Bureau	—
Aleksei Kiselyov Алексей Киселёв	1879	1937	1898	Russian		Chairman, Permanent Commission of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR	—
Valerian Kuybyshev Валериан Куйбышев	1888	1935	1904	Russian		Member, Presidium of the All-Russian Council of Trade Unions	—
Vladimir Milyutin Владимир Милютин	1884	1937	1910	Russian		Deputy Chairman, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the Russian SFSR Member, Presidium of the Russian SFSR	—
Valerian Osinsky Валериан Оболенский	1887	1938	1907	Russian	—	People's Commissar for Agriculture of the Russian SFSR	—
Georgy Safarov Георгий Сафаров	1891	1942	1908	Russian	80px	Chairman, Turkestan Bureau	—
Vasily Schmidt Сергей Чуцкаев	1886	1938	1905	Russian		Member, Presidium of the All-Russian Council of Trade Unions	COB
Ivan Smirnov Иван Смирнов	1881	1936	1899	Russian		Chairman, Siberian Bureau	—
Daniil Sulimov Даниил Сулимов	1890	1937	1905	Russian		Chairman, Ural Industrial Bureau	—
Nikolai Uglanov Николай Угланов	1886	1937	1907	Russian	—	First Secretary, Petrograd Regional Committee	—
Pyotr Zalutsky Петро Залуцький	1887	1937	1907	Russian		Secretary, Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets	COB
Isaak Zelensky Исаак Зеленский	1890	1937	1906	Russian✡	—	Member, Collegium of the People's Commissariat for Food of the Russian SFSR	—

References

General

Plenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity (by clicking on the individual names on "The Central Committee, elected X th Congress of the RCP (B) 16/3/1921 members" reference), the Central Committee full- and candidate membership, Politburo membership, Secretariat membership and Orgburo membership were taken from these sources: