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

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

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17th Politburo
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10 February 1934 – 22 March 1939
Leadership
General Secretary	Joseph Stalin
Second Secretary	Vyacheslav Molotov (Jul.– Dec. 1930) Lazar Kaganovich (1930–1934)
Politburo	12 full & 9 candidates
Secretariat	6 members
Orgburo	12 full & 2 candidates

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

Composition

Members

Members of the Politburo of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
^[1]
Name	Cyrillic	16th POL	18th POL	Birth	Death	PM	Ethnicity	Gender
Andrey Andreyev	Андрей Андреев	Old	Reelected	1895	1971	1914	Russian	Male
Vlas Chubar	Влас Чубар	Promoted	Relieved	1891	1939	1907	Ukrainian	Male
Lazar Kaganovich	Лазарь Каганович	Old	Reelected	1893	1991	1911	Jewish	Male
Mikhail Kalinin	Михаил Калинин	Old	Reelected	1875	1946	1898	Russian	Male
Sergey Kirov	Серге́й Ки́ров	Old	Murder	1886	1934	1904	Russian	Male
Stanislav Kosior	Станислав Косиор	Old	Arrested	1889	1939	1907	Polish	Male
Valerian Kuybyshev	Валериан Куйбышев	Old	Died	1888	1935	1904	Russian	Male
Anastas Mikoyan	Анаста́с Микоя́н	Promoted	Reelected	1895	1978	1915	Armenian	Male
Vyacheslav Molotov	Вячеслав Молотов	Old	Reelected	1890	1986	1906	Russian	Male
Grigol Ordzhonikidze	Григо́рий Орджоники́дзе	Old	Suicide	1886	1937	1903	Georgian	Male
Joseph Stalin	Ио́сиф Ста́лин	Old	Reelected	1878	1953	1898	Georgian	Male
Kliment Voroshilov	Климент Ворошилов	Old	Reelected	1881	1969	1903	Russian	Male

Candidates

Candidate Members of the Politburo of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
^[1]
Name	Cyrillic	16th POL	18th POL	Birth	Death	PM	Ethnicity	Gender
Vlas Chubar	Влас Чубар	Candidate	Promoted	1891	1939	1907	Ukrainian	Male
Robert Eikhe	Роберт Эйхе	By-election	Arrested	1890	1940	1905	Latvian	Male
Nikita Khrushchev	Никита Хрущёв	By-election	Member	1894	1971	1918	Russian	Male
Anastas Mikoyan	Анаста́с Микоя́н	Candidate	Promoted	1895	1978	1915	Armenian	Male
Grigory Petrovsky	Григо́рій Петро́вський	Candidate	Not	1878	1958	1898	Ukrainian	Male
Pavel Postyshev	Григо́рій Петро́вський	New	Relieved	1887	1939	1904	Russian	Male
Jānis Rudzutaks	Ян Рудзутак	Demoted	Relieved	1887	1938	1905	Latvian	Male
Nikolai Yezhov	Николай Ежов	By-election	Not	1895	1940	1917	Russian- Lithuanian^[2]^[3]^[a]	Male
Andrei Zhdanov	Андрей Жданов	By-election	Member	1896	1948	1915	Russian	Male

References

^ ^a ^b "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" [Narrow composition of the Central Committee of the RSDLP(b) - Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (b) - Bureau of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (b) - RCP (b) - Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) - CPSU (b) - Presidium - Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU]. Knowbysight.info. Archived from the original on 28 May 2022. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
^ "Interrogations of Nikolai Ezhov, former People's Commissar for Internal Affairs". Retrieved 4 November 2023.
^ Jansen, Mark and Petrov, Nikita (2002). Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940. Hoover Institution Press. pp. 2 and 201.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Notes

^ His father was Russian and his mother Lithuanian

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Central Committee

Leaders	Vladimir Lenin (1912–24) Joseph Stalin (1924–53) Nikita Khrushchev (1953–64) Leonid Brezhnev (1964–82) Yuri Andropov (1982–84) Konstantin Chernenko (1984–85) Mikhail Gorbachev (1985–91)
General Secretaries	Elena Stasova (1917–18) Yakov Sverdlov (1918–19) Elena Stasova (Mar.–Dec. 1919) Nikolay Krestinsky (1919–21) Vyacheslav Molotov (1921–22) Joseph Stalin (1922–52) Nikita Khrushchev (1953–64) Leonid Brezhnev (1964–82) Yuri Andropov (1982–84) Konstantin Chernenko (1984–85) Mikhail Gorbachev (1985–91) Vladimir Ivashko (acting, Aug. 1991)
Decision-making bodies	Politburo / Presidium Secretariat Orgburo Control Commission
Departments	Administrative Organs Agriculture Chemical Industry Construction Culture Defence Industry Foreign Cadres General Heavy Industry Information International Light- and Food Industry Machine Industry Organisational-party Work Planning and Financial Organs Political Administration of the Armed Forces Propaganda Science and Education Trade and Consumers' Services Transportation-Communications Women
Publications	Pravda Bolshevik / Kommunist

National meetings

Congress	1st (1898) 2nd (1903) 3rd (1905) 4th (1906) 5th (1907) 6th (1917) 7th (1918) 8th (1919) 9th (1920) 10th (1921) 11th (1922) 12th (1923) 13th (1924) 14th (1925) 15th (1927) 16th (1930) 17th (1934) 18th (1939) 19th (1952) 20th (1956) 21st (1959) 22nd (1961) 23rd (1966) 24th (1971) 25th (1976) 26th (1981) 27th (1986) 28th (1990)
Conference	1st (1905) 2nd (1906) 3rd (Aug. 1907) 4th (Nov. 1907) 5th (1908) 6th (1912) 7th (1917) 8th (1919) 9th (1920) 10th (May 1921) 11th (Dec. 1921) 12th (1922) 13th (1924) 14th (1925) 15th (1926) 16th (1929) 17th (1932) 18th (1941) 19th (1988)

Leadership sittings

Elected by the
Central Committee

Politburo	Aug.–Oct. 1917 Oct.–Dec. 1917 6th (1917–18) 7th (1918–19) 8th (1919–20) 9th (1920–21) 10th (1921–22) 11th (1922–23) 12th (1923–24) 13th (1924–25) 14th (1925–27) 15th (1927–30) 16th (1930–34) 17th (1934–39) 18th (1939–52) 19th (1952–56) 20th (1956–61) 22nd (1961–66) 23rd (1966–71) 24th (1971–76) 25th (1976–81) 26th (1981–86) 27th (1986–90) 28th (1990–91)
Secretariat	6th (1917–18) 7th (1918–19) 8th (1919–20) 9th (1920–21) 10th (1921–22) 11th (1922–23) 12th (1923–24) 13th (1924–25) 14th (1925–27) 15th (1927–30) 16th (1930–34) 17th (1934–39) 18th (1939–52) 19th (1952–56) 20th (1956–61) 22nd (1961–66) 23rd (1966–71) 24th (1971–76) 25th (1976–81) 26th (1981–86) 27th (1986–90) 28th (1990–91)
Orgburo	7th (Jan.–Mar. 1919) 8th (1919–20) 9th (1920–21) 10th (1921–22) 11th (1922–23) 12th (1923–24) 13th (1924–25) 14th (1925–27) 15th (1927–30) 16th (1930–34) 17th (1934–39) 18th (1939–52)
Control Committee	17th (1934–39) 18th (1939–52) 19th (1952–56) 20th (1956–61) 22nd (1961–66) 23rd (1966–71) 24th (1971–76) 25th (1976–81) 26th (1981–86) 27th (1986–90)

Elected by the Central
Control Commission

Presidium	12th (1923–24) 13th (1924–25) 14th (1925–27) 15th (1927–30) 16th (1930–34) 28th (1990–91)
Secretariat	12th (1923–24) 13th (1924–25) 14th (1925–27)
Collegium	12th (1923–24) 13th (1924–25) 14th (1925–27) 15th (1927–30) 16th (1930–34)

Elected by
Congress

Central Committee	1st (1898–1903) 2nd (1903–05) 3rd (Apr.–Dec. 1905) CC of the 1st Conf. (1905–06) 4th (1906–07) 5th (1907–12) CC of the 6th Conf. (1912–17) CC of the 7th Conf. (Apr.–Aug. 1917) 6th (1917–18) 7th (1918–19) 8th (1919–20) 9th (1920–21) 10th (1921–22) 11th (1922–23) 12th (1923–24) 13th (1924–25) 14th (1925–27) 15th (1927–30) 16th (1930–34) 17th (1934–39) 18th (1939–52) 19th (1952–56) 20th (1956–61) 22nd (1961–66) 23rd (1966–71) 24th (1971–76) 25th (1976–81) 26th (1981–86) 27th (1986–90) 28th (1990–91)
Auditing Commission	8th (1919–21) 10th (1921–24) 13th (1924–25) 14th (1925–27) 15th (1927–30) 16th (1930–34) 17th (1934–39) 18th (1939–52) 19th (1952–56) 20th (1956–61) 22nd (1961–66) 23rd (1966–71) 24th (1971–76) 25th (1976–81) 26th (1981–86) 27th (1986–90)
Control Commission	9th (1920–21) 10th (1921–22) 11th (1922–23) 12th (1923–24) 13th (1924–25) 14th (1925–27) 15th (1927–30) 16th (1930–34) 28th (1990–91)

Wider organisation

Republican-level	Armenian Azerbaijani Byelorussian Bukharan Estonian Georgian Karelo-Finnish Kazakh Khorezmi Kirghiz Latvian Lithuanian Moldavian Russian SFSR Tajik Transcaucasian Turkestani Turkmen Ukrainian Uzbek

Local-level	Obkom Okrugkom Gorkom Raikom Partkom

Other organs	Statute All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (Komsomol) Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Soviet Navy

Groupings

Ban on factions
Group of Democratic Centralism (1919–21)
Workers' Opposition (1920–21)
Workers' Truth (1921–23)
Left Opposition (1923–27)
Workers' Group (1923–30)
Right Opposition (1924–33)
United Opposition (1926–27)
Left-Right Bloc (1930)
Union of Marxist-Leninists (1932)
Bloc of Soviet Oppositions (1932–33)
Anti-Party Group (1957)
Soyuz (1990–91)
State Committee on the State of Emergency (1991)