Central Committee of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 15th Congress, and sat from 19 December 1927 until 13 July 1930. The CC 1st Plenary Session renewed the composition of the Politburo, Secretariat and the Organizational Bureau (OB) of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

Plenums The CC was not a permanent institution. It convened plenary sessions, of which six CC plenary sessions and two joint CC–Central Control Commission (CCC) plenary sessions were held between the 15th Congress and the 16th 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).

+ Plenary sessions of the Central Committee Plenum Date Length 1st Plenary Session 19 December 1927 1 day 1st Joint Plenary Session 6–11 April 1928 6 days 2nd Plenary Session 4–12 July 1928 9 days 3rd Plenary Session 16–24 November 1928 9 days 2nd Joint Plenary Session 16–23 April 1929 8 days 4th Plenary Session 29 April 1929 1 day 5th Plenary Session 21 June 1929 1 day 6th Plenary Session 10–17 November 1929 8 days

Apparatus Individuals employed by Central Committee's bureaus, departments and newspapers made up the apparatus between the 15th Congress and the 16th 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.

+Central Committee Apparatus of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Institution Leader Cyrillic Took office Left office Length of tenure Nationality Gender Administrator of Affairs Тимофей Самсонов 19 December 1927 13 July 1930 Ukrainian Male Agitation, Propaganda and Press Department Александр Криницкий 19 December 1927 19 November 1929 Russian Male Agitation, Propaganda and Press Department Алексей Стецкий 19 November 1929 1 May 1930 Russian Male Bolshevik Никола́й Буха́рин 19 December 1927 April 1929 Russian Male Bolshevik Вильгельм Кнорин 1930 13 July 1930 Latvian Male Culture and Propaganda Department Алексей Стецкий 1 May 1930 13 July 1930 Russian Male Information Department Лев Рошаль 19 December 1927 1928 Jewish Male Institute of Red Professors Михаи́л Покро́вский 19 December 1927 13 July 1930 Russian Male Lenin Institute Ива́н Скворцо́в-Степа́нов 19 December 1927 August 1928 Russian Male Lenin Institute Максимилиан Савельев August 1928 13 July 1930 Russian Male Party History Department Vacant 19 December 1927 20 August 1928 Pravda Никола́й Буха́рин 19 December 1927 April 1929 Russian Male Pravda Editorial Board April 1929 13 July 1930 Press Department Sergei Gusev Сергей Гусев 19 December 1927 March 1928 Jewish Male Press Department Николай Смирнов March 1928 May 1928 Russian Male Organizational-Distribution Department Иван Москвин 19 December 1927 13 July 1930 Russian Male Secret Department Иван Товстуха 19 December 1927 13 July 1930 Ukrainian Male Statistical Department Елена Смиттен 19 December 1927 13 July 1930 Belarusian Female Work in the Countryside Department Карл Бауман 19 December 1927 13 July 1930 Latvian Male Women's Department Елена Смиттен 19 December 1927 13 July 1930 Russian Female

Composition Members +Members of the Central Committee of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Name Cyrillic 14th CC 16th CC Nationality Gender Portrait Иван Акулов 1888 1937 1907 Russian Male Андрей Андреев 1895 1971 1914 Russian Male Николай Антипов 1894 1938 1912 Russian Male Александра Артюхина 1889 1969 1910 Russian Female Алексей Бадаев 1883 1951 1904 Russian Male Карл Бауман 1892 1937 1907 Latvian Male Андрей Бубнов 1884 1938 1903 Russian Male Никола́й Буха́рин 1888 1938 1906 Russian Male Георгий Чичерин 1872 1936 1918 Russian Male Влас Чубар 1891 1939 1907 Ukrainian Male Михаил Чудов 1893 1937 1913 Russian Male Александр Догадов 1888 1937 1905 Russian Male Ян Гамарник 1894 1937 1916 Jewish Male Филипп Голощёкин 1876 1941 1903 Jewish Male Иван Кабаков 1891 1937 1914 Russian Male Лазарь Каганович 1893 1991 1911 Jewish Male Михаил Калинин 1875 1946 1898 Russian Male Куприян Киркиж 1886 1932 1910 Belarusian Male Серге́й Ки́ров 1886 1934 1904 Russian Male Вильгельм Кнорин 1890 1938 1910 Latvian Male Николай Колотилов 1885 1937 1903 Russian Male Николай Комаров 1886 1937 1909 Russian Male Иосиф Косиор 1889 1937 1908 Polish Male Станислав Косиор 1889 1939 1907 Polish Male Василий Котов 1885 1937 1915 Russian Male Наде́жда Кру́пская 1869 1939 1898 Russian Female Глеб Кржижано́вский 1872 1959 1898 Polish-German Male Николай Кубяк 1881 1937 1898 Russian Male Егор Куликов 1891 1943 1910 Russian Male Валериан Куйбышев 1888 1935 1904 Russian Male Эммануил Квиринг 1888 1937 1912 Volga German Male Иван Лепсе 1889 1929 1906 Latvian Male Семён Лобов 1888 1937 1913 Russian Male Исидор Любимов 1882 1937 1902 Russian Male Дмитро Мануїльський 1883 1959 1903 Ukrainian Male Алексей Медведев 1884 1937 1904 Russian Male Вячеслав Менжинский 1874 1934 1902 Polish Male Василий Михайлов 1894 1937 1915 Russian Male Анастас Микоян 1895 1978 1915 Armenian Male Вячеслав Молотов 1890 1986 1906 Russian Male Иван Москвин 1890 1937 1911 Russian Male Георгий Оппоков 1888 1938 1903 Russian Male Мамия Орахелашвили 1888 1937 1903 Georgian Male Григо́рій Петро́вський 1878 1958 1898 Ukrainian Male Осип Пятницкий 1882 1938 1898 Jewish Male Григо́рій Петро́вський 1887 1939 1904 Russian Male Ян Рудзутак 1887 1938 1906 Latvian Male Моисей Рухимович 1889 1937 1913 Jewish Male Иван Румянцев 1886 1937 1905 Russian Male Алексей Рыков 1881 1938 1899 Russian Male Сергей Чуцкаев 1886 1938 1905 German Male Исаак Шварц 1879 1951 1899 Jewish Male Николай Шверник 1888 1970 1905 Russian Male Микола Скрипник 1872 1933 1898 Ukrainian Male Ива́н Скворцо́в-Степа́нов 1878 1928 1898 Russian Male Александр Смирнов 1878 1938 1898 Russian Male Григорий Сокольников 1888 1938 1905 Jewish Male Ио́сиф Ста́лин 1878 1953 1898 Georgian Male Алексей Стецкий 1896 1938 1915 Russian Male Константин Стриевский 1885 1938 1902 Belarusian Male Даниил Сулимов 1890 1937 1905 Russian Male Сергей Сырцов 1893 1937 1913 Russian Male Александр Толоконцев 1889 1937 1914 Russian Male Михаил Томский 1880 1936 1904 Russian Male Алекса́ндр Цюру́па 1870 1928 1898 Ukrainian Male Фёдор Угаров 1885 1932 1905 Russian Male Николай Угланов 1886 1937 1907 Russian Male Константин Уханов 1891 1937 1907 Russian Male Климент Ворошилов 1881 1969 1903 Russian Male Исаак Зеленский 1890 1937 1906 Jewish Male Иван Жуков 1889 1937 1909 Russian Male

Candidates +Candidate Members of the Central Committee of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Name Cyrillic 14th CC 16th CC Nationality Gender Portrait Пётр Алексеев 1893 1937 1914 Russian Male Наум Анцелович 1888 1952 1905 Jewish Male Пётр Баранов 1892 1933 1912 Russian Male Николай Брюханов 1878 1938 1902 Russian Male Николай Чаплин 1902 1938 1919 Russian Male Сергей Чуцкаев 1876 1944 1903 Russian Male Михаил Чувырин 1883 1947 1903 Russian Male Роберт Эйхе 1890 1940 1906 Latvian Male Шалва Элиава 1883 1937 1904 Georgian Male Константин Гей 1896 1939 1916 German-Russian Male Фёдор Грядинский 1893 1938 1912 Russian Male Акмаль Икрамов 1898 1938 1918 Uzbek Male Владимир Иванов 1893 1938 1915 Russian Male Анна Калыгина 1895 1937 1915 Russian Female Григорий Каминский 1895 1938 1913 Jewish Male Мендель Хатаевич 1893 1937 1913 Jewish Male Алексей Киселёв 1879 1937 1898 Russian Male Иван Клименко 1891 1937 1912 Russian Male Иван Кодацкий 1893 1937 1914 Russian Male Филимон Колгушкин 1887 1937 1905 Russian Male Тарас Кондратьев 1892 1937 1913 Russian Male Александр Криницкий 1894 1937 1915 Russian Male Фёдор Леонов 1892 1938 1914 Russian Male Филипп Локацков 1881 1937 1904 Russian Male Виссарион Ломинадзе 1897 1935 1917 Georgian Male Соломон Лозовский 1892 1952 1901 Jewish Male Александр Марков 1877 1935 1898 Russian Male Валерий Межлаук 1893 1938 1917 Latvian Male Михаил Михайлов-Иванов 1894 1931 1913 Russian Male Левон Мирзоян 1887 1939 1917 Armenian Male Григорий Мельничанский 1886 1937 1902 Jewish Male Газанфар Мусабеков 1888 1938 1918 Azerbaijani Male Клавдия Николаева 1893 1944 1909 Russian Female Иван Носов 1888 1937 1905 Russian Male Михаил Ошвинцев 1889 1939 1917 Russian Male Валериан Оболенский 1882 1938 1907 Russian Male Владимир Полонский 1893 1937 1912 Russian Male Константин Румянцев 1889 1939 1916 Russian Male Кузьма Рындин 1893 1938 1915 Russian Male Мартемья́н Рю́тин 1890 1937 1914 Russian Male Борис Семёнов 1890 1937 1907 Russian Male Александр Серебровский 1884 1938 1903 Russian Male Александр Серебровский 1900 1939 1918 Russian Male Василий Строганов 1888 1938 1905 Russian Male Кирилл Сухомлин 1886 1938 1905 Russian Male Антон Цихон 1887 1939 1906 Belarusian Male Ио́сиф У́ншлихт 1879 1938 1907 Jewish Male Михаил Урываев 1887 1937 1917 Russian Male Иосиф Варейкис 1894 1938 1913 Lithuanian Male Андрей Жданов 1896 1948 1915 Russian Male

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Plenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity (by clicking on the individual names on "The Central Committee elected by the XVth Congress of the CPSU (b) 12.19.1927 members" reference), the Central Committee full- and candidate membership, Politburo membership, Secretariat membership and Orgburo membership were taken from these sources:

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