Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was in session from 1939 until 1952, and was replenished in 1941. It elected, at its 1st Plenary Session, the Politburo, the Secretariat, the Orgburo and the Party Control Commission.

Plenums

The CC was not a permanent institution. The CC was convened for 10 plenary sessions between the 18th Congress and the 19th 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 to decide on crucial matters).

Plenary sessions of the Central Committee

Plenum	Date	Length
1st Plenary Session	22 March 1939	1 day
2nd Plenary Session	21–24, 27 July 1939	5 days
3rd Plenary Session	26–28 March 1940	4 days
4th Plenary Session	29–31 July 1940	3 days
5th Plenary Session	21 February 1941	1 day
6th Plenary Session	5 May 1941	1 day
7th Plenary Session	27 January 1944	1 day
8th Plenary Session	11, 14, 18 March 1946	3 days
9th Plenary Session	21–22, 24, 26 February 1947	4 days
10th Plenary Session	15 August 1952	1 day

Composition

Members

Members of the Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

Name	Cyrillic	17th CC	18th Con.	19th CC	Birth	Death	PM	Ethnicity	Gender
Andrey Andreyev	Андрей Андреев	Old	Renewed	Reelected	1895	1971	1914	Russian	Male
Vasily Andrianov	Василий Андрианов	New	Renewed	Reelected	1902	1978	1926	Russian	Male
Naum Antselovich	Наум Анцелович	New	Recalled	Died	1888	1952	1905	Russian	Male
Aleksei Badayev	Алексей Бадаев	Old	Renewed	Died	1883	1951	1904	Russian	Male
Mir Jafar Baghirov	Мир Джафар Багиров	Old	Renewed	Reelected	1896	1956	1917	Azerbaijani	Male
Ivan Benediktov	Иван Бенедиктов	New	Candidate	—	1902	1983	1930	Russian	Male
Lavrentiy Beria	Лаврентий Берия	New	Renewed	Reelected	1899	1953	1917	Georgian	Male
Gennady Borkov	Геннадий Борков	New	Renewed	Reelected	1905	1983	1924	Russian	Male
Semyon Budyonny	Семён Будённый	Candidate	Renewed	Candidate	1883	1973	1919	Russian	Male
Nikolai Bulganin	Николай Булганин	Old	Renewed	Reelected	1895	1975	1917	Russian	Male
Mykhailo Burmystenko	Михаил Бурмистенко	New	Renewed	WWII	1902	1941	1919	Ukrainian	Male
Vladimir Dekanozov	Владимир Деканозов	Candidate	Promoted	Not	1898	1953	1920	Georgian	Male
Vladimir Donskoi	Владимир Донской	New	Renewed	Removed	1903	1954	1925	Russian	Male
Boris Dvinskiy	Борис Двинский	New	Renewed	Candidate	1894	1973	1920	Russian	Male
Alexander Fadeyev	Александр Фадеев	New	Renewed	Reelected	1901	1956	1918	Russian	Male
Lazar Kaganovich	Лазарь Каганович	Old	Renewed	Reelected	1893	1991	1911	Russian	Male
Mikhail Kaganovich	Михаил Каганович	Old	Renewed	Suicide	1888	1941	1905	Russian	Male
Mikhail Kalinin	Михаил Калинин	Old	Renewed	Died	1875	1946	1898	Russian	Male
Nikita Khrushchev	Никита Хрущёв	Old	Renewed	Reelected	1894	1971	1918	Russian	Male
Leonid Korniyets	Леонид Корниец	New	Renewed	Candidate	1901	1969	1926	Ukrainian	Male
Demyan Korotchenko	Демьян Коротченко	New	Renewed	Reelected	1894	1969	1918	Ukrainian	Male
Alexei Kosygin	Алексей Косыгин	New	Renewed	Reelected	1904	1980	1927	Russian	Male
Grigory Kulik	Григорий Кулик	New	Renewed	Sentenced	1890	1950	1917	Ukrainian	Male
Otto Kuusinen	Григорий Кулик	Not	Elected	Reelected	1881	1964	1918	Finnish	Male
Alexey Kuznetsov	Алексей Кузнецов	New	Renewed	Sentenced	1905	1950	1925	Russian	Male
Nikolay Kuznetsov	Николай Кузнецов	New	Renewed	Reelected	1902	1974	1925	Russian	Male
Ivan Likhachev	Иван Лихачёв	New	Recalled	Not	1896	1956	1917	Russian	Male
Maxim Litvinov	Максим Литвинов	Old	Recalled	Died	1876	1951	1898	Russian	Male
Solomon Lozovsky	Соломон Лозовский	Old	Renewed	Expelled	1892	1952	1901	Russian	Male
Pyotr Lyubavin	Пётр Любавин	New	Renewed	WWII	1896	1941	1919	Ukrainian	Male
Georgy Malenkov	Георги Маленков	New	Renewed	Reelected	1902	1988	1920	Russian	Male
Vyacheslav Malyshev	Вячеслав Малышев	New	Renewed	Reelected	1902	1957	1926	Russian	Male
Dmitry Manuilsky	Дмитрий Мануильский	Old	Renewed	Not	1883	1959	1903	Ukrainian	Male
Lev Mekhlis	Лев Мехлис	Old	Renewed	Reelected	1889	1953	1918	Ukrainian	Male
Fedor Merkulov	Фёдор Меркулов	New	Recalled	Not	1900	1956	1919	Russian	Male
Vsevolod Merkulov	Всеволод Меркулов	New	Renewed	Candidate	1895	1953	1925	Russian	Male
Nikolay Mikhailov	Николай Михайлов	New	Renewed	Reelected	1906	1982	1930	Russian	Male
Anastas Mikoyan	Анастас Микоян	Old	Renewed	Reelected	1895	1978	1915	Armenian	Male
Mark Mitin	Марк Митин	New	Renewed	Reelected	1901	1987	1919	Ukrainian	Male
Vyacheslav Molotov	Вячеслав Молотов	Old	Renewed	Reelected	1890	1986	1906	Russian	Male
Klavdiya Nikolayeva	Клавдия Николаева	Old	Renewed	Died	1893	1944	1909	Russian	Female
Vladimir Nikitin	Владимир Никитин	New	Renewed	Not	1907	1959	1925	Russian	Male
Nikolai Patolichev	Николай Патоличев	New	Promoted	Reelected	1908	1989	1928	Russian	Male
Nikolai Pegov	Николай Пегов	New	Renewed	Reelected	1905	1991	1930	Russian	Male
Mikhail Pervukhin	Михаил Первухин	New	Renewed	Reelected	1904	1978	1919	Russian	Male
Panteleimon Ponomarenko	Пантелеймон Пономаренко	New	Renewed	Reelected	1902	1984	1925	Ukrainian	Male
Georgy Popov	Георгий Попов	Candidate	Promoted	Candidate	1906	1968	1926	Russian	Male
Alexander Poskrebyshev	Александр Поскрёбышев	Candidate	Renewed	Reelected	1891	1965	1917	Russian	Male
Pyotr Pospelov	Пётр Поспелов	New	Renewed	Reelected	1898	1979	1916	Russian	Male
Vladimir Potemkin	Владимир Потёмкин	New	Renewed	Not	1898	1979	1919	Russian	Male
Vasily Pronin	Василий Пронин	Candidate	Promoted	Reelected	1905	1993	1925	Russian	Male
Ivan Rogov	Иван Рогов	New	Renewed	Not	1898	1979	1918	Russian	Male
Ivan Sedin	Иван Седин	New	Renewed	Not	1906	1972	1928	Russian	Male
Aleksey Shakurin	Алексей Шахурин	New	Renewed	Sentenced	1904	1975	1925	Russian	Male
Efim Shchadenko	Ефим Щаденко	New	Candidate	—	1900	1951	1904	Ukrainian	Male
Aleksandr Shcherbakov	Александр Щербаков	New	Renewed	Died	1901	1945	1918	Russian	Male
Matvei Shkiryatov	Матвей Шкирятов	New	Renewed	Reelected	1883	1954	1906	Russian	Male
Grigori Shtern	Григорий Штерн	New	Renewed	Sentenced	1900	1941	1919	Ukrainian	Male
Nikolai Shvernik	Николай Шверник	Old	Renewed	Reelected	1888	1970	1905	Russian	Male
Nikolay Skvortsov	Николай Скворцов	New	Renewed	Not	1899	1974	1919	Russian	Male
Joseph Stalin	Иосиф Сталин	Old	Renewed	Reelected	1878	1953	1898	Georgian	Male
Mikhail Suslov	Михаил Суслов	Not	Elected	Reelected	1902	1982	1921	Russian	Male
Ivan Tevosian	Иван Тевосян	New	Renewed	Reelected	1902	1958	1918	Armenian	Male
Semyon Timoshenko	Семён Тимошенко	New	Renewed	Candidate	1895	1970	1919	Ukrainian	Male
Yusupov Usman	Усман Юсупов	New	Renewed	Reelected	1901	1966	1926	Uzbek	Male
Vasily Vakhrushev	Василий Вахрушев	New	Renewed	Died	1902	1947	1919	Russian	Male
Boris Vannikov	Борис Ванников	New	Renewed	Reelected	1897	1962	1919	Russian	Male
Kliment Voroshilov	Климент Ворошилов	Old	Renewed	Reelected	1881	1969	1903	Russian	Male
Nikolai Voznesensky	Николай Вознесенский	New	Renewed	Sentenced	1903	1950	1919	Russian	Male
Andrey Vyshinsky	Андрей Вышинский	New	Renewed	Reelected	1883	1954	1920	Russian	Male
Yemelyan Yaroslavsky	Емельян Ярославский	New	Renewed	Died	1878	1943	1898	Russian	Male
Aleksandr Yefremov	Александр Ефремов	New	Renewed	Died	1904	1951	1924	Russian	Male
Semyon Zadionchenko	Семён Задионченко	New	Renewed	Not	1898	1972	1919	Ukrainian	Male
Rosalia Zemlyachka	Розалия Землячка	New	Renewed	Died	1876	1947	1898	Russian	Female
Simon Zhakarov	Семён Захаров	New	Renewed	Not	1906	1986	1926	Russian	Male
Andrei Zhdanov	Андрей Жданов	Old	Renewed	Died	1896	1948	1915	Russian	Male
Arseny Zverev	Арсений Зверев	New	Renewed	Reelected	1900	1969	1919	Russian	Male

Candidates

Candidate Members of the Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

Name	Cyrillic	17th CC	18th Con.	19th CC	Birth	Death	PM	Ethnicity	Gender
Georgy Aleksandrov	Георгий Александров	Not	Candidate	Candidate	1908	1961	1928	Russian	Male
Alexander Alemasov	Александр Алемасов	New	Renewed	Not	1902	1972	1919	Russian	Male
Dmitry Antonov	Дмитрий Антонов	New	Removed	Not	1896	?	1918	Russian	Male
Iosif Apanasenko	Иосиф Апанасенко	Not	Candidate	WWII	1890	1943	1918	Russian	Male
Grigory Arutinov	Григроий Арутинов	New	Renewed	Member	1900	1957	1919	Armenian	Male
Sergei Bagaev	Сергей Багаев	New	Renewed	Not	1902	1977	1920	Russian	Male
Valerian Bakradze	Валериан Бакрадзе	New	Renewed	Candidate	1901	1971	1921	Georgian	Male
Ivan Benediktov	Иван Бенедиктов	—	Candidate	Member	1902	1983	1930	Russian	Male
Nikolai Biryukov	Николай Бирюков	New	Removed	Not	1901	1974	1925	Russian	Male
Ivan Boytsov	Иван Бойцов	New	Renewed	Member	1896	1988	1919	Russian	Male
Candide Charkviani	Кандид Чарквиани	New	Renewed	Not	1907	1994	1930	Georgian	Male
Yakov Cherevichenko	Яков Черевиченко	Not	Candidate	Not	1894	1976	1919	Russian	Male
Boris Chernousov	Борис Черноусов	New	Renewed	Not	1908	1978	1929	Russian	Male
Aleksey Chuyanov	Алексей Чуянов	New	Renewed	Not	1905	1977	1925	Russian	Male
Vladimir Dekanozov	Владимир Деканозов	New	Promoted	—	1898	1953	1920	Georgian	Male
Mikhail Denisov	Михаил Денисов	New	Renewed	Not	1902	1973	1926	Russian	Male
Pavel Doronin	Павел Доронин	New	Renewed	Not	1909	1976	1927	Russian	Male
Alexander Dubrovsky	Александр Дубровский	New	Renewed	Removed	1900	1970	1920	Russian	Male
Nikolay Feklenko	Николай Фекленко	New	Removed	Died	1901	1951	1920	Russian	Male
Aleksey Frolkov	Алексей Фролков	New	Removed	Not	1904	1989	1926	Russian	Male
Sergo Goglidze	Сергей Гоглидзе	New	Renewed	Candidate	1901	1953	1919	Georgian	Male
Aleksandr Gorkin	Александр Горкин	New	Renewed	Not	1897	1988	1916	Russian	Male
Grigory Gromov	Григорий Громов	New	Renewed	Not	1903	1973	1924	Russian	Male
Nikolai Gusarov	Николай Гусаров	New	Renewed	Not	1905	1985	1925	Russian	Male
Mikhail Gvishiani	Михаил Гвишиани	New	Renewed	Not	1905	1966	1928	Georgian	Male
Sergei Ignatiev	Сергей Игнатьев	New	Renewed	Not	1902	1984	1924	Russian	Male
Nikolai Ignatov	Николай Игнатов	New	Removed	Member	1901	1966	1924	Russian	Male
Avak Iskanderov	Авак Искандеров	New	Renewed	Sentenced	1902	1941	1920	Russian	Male
Kirill Kachalin	КириллКачалин	New	Renewed	Removed	1904	?	1928	Russian	Male
Sergey Kaftanov	Сергей Кафтанов	New	Renewed	Not	1905	1978	1926	Russian	Male
Jānis Kalnbērziņš	Ян Калнбе́рзинь	Not	Candidate	Member	1893	1986	1917	Latvian	Male
Konstantin Kartashov	Константин Карташёв	New	Renewed	Not	1904	1959	1927	Russian	Male
Mikhail Kirponos	Иосиф Апанасенко	Not	Candidate	WWII	1890	1941	1918	Russian	Male
Ivan Konev	Иван Конев	New	Renewed	Member	1897	1973	1918	Russian	Male
Ivan Khokhlov	Иван Хохлов	New	Renewed	Candidate	1895	1973	1918	Russian	Male
Bogdan Kobulov	Богдан Кобулов	New	Renewed	Candidate	1904	1953	1925	Armenian	Male
Anatoly Kolybanov	Анатолий Колыбанов	New	Renewed	Not	1904	1978	1925	Russian	Male
Pavel Komarov	Павел Комаров	New	Renewed	Candidate	1898	1983	1920	Russian	Male
Mikhail Kovalyov	Михаил Ковалёв	New	Removed	Not	1897	1967	1927	Russian	Male
Sergey Kruglov	Сергей Круглов	New	Renewed	Member	1907	1977	1928	Russian	Male
Alexey Krutikov	Алексей Крутиков	Not	Candidate	Not	1902	1962	1927	Russian	Male
Pavel Kulakov	Павел Кулаков	New	Renewed	Not	1910	1979	1929	Russian	Male
Gennady Kupriyanov	Геннадий Куприянов	Not	Candidate	Sentenced	1905	1979	1926	Russian	Male
Aleksandr Loktionov	Александр Локтионов	New	Renewed	Sentenced	1893	1941	1921	Russian	Male
Ivan Maisky	Антанас Снечкус	Not	Candidate	Removed	1884	1975	1921	Russian	Male
Ivan Makarov	Иван Макаров	—	Renewed	Died	1888	1949	1905	Russian	Male
Ivan Maslennikov	Иван Масленников	New	Renewed	Candidate	1900	1954	1924	Russian	Male
Kirill Meretskov	Кирилл Мерецков	New	Renewed	Candidate	1897	1968	1917	Russian	Male
Nikolay Nevezhin	Николай Невежин	New	Removed	Not	1901	1972	1925	Russian	Male
Ivan Nikishov	Иван Никишов	New	Renewed	Not	1894	1956	1919	Russian	Male
Ivan Nosenko	Иван Носенко	Not	Candidate	Candidate	1902	1956	1925	Russian	Male
Georgy Paltsev	Георгий Пальцев	New	Renewed	Removed	1906	1964	1927	Russian	Male
Nikolai Patolichev	Николай Патоличев	New	Promoted	—	1908	1989	1928	Russian	Male
Dmitry Pavlov	Дмитрий Павлов	New	Renewed	Sentenced	1897	1941	1919	Russian	Male
Pyotr Popkov	Пётр Попков	New	Renewed	Sentenced	1903	1950	1925	Russian	Male
Georgy Popov	Георгий Попов	New	Promoted	—	1906	1968	1926	Russian	Male
Vasily Pronin	Василий Пронин	New	Promoted	—	1905	1993	1925	Russian	Male
Grigory Rastogin	Григорий Растёгин	New	Removed	Not	1902	1971	1926	Russian	Male
Mikhail Rodionov	Григорий Растёгин	Not	Candidate	Sentenced	1907	1950	1929	Russian	Male
Aleksandr Samokhvalov	Александр Самохвалов	New	Removed	Not	1902	1956	1920	Russian	Male
Karl Säre	Карл Сяре	Not	Candidate	WWII	1903	1956	1927	Estonian	Male
Georgy Savchenko	Георгий Савченко	New	Renewed	Sentenced	1901	1941	1925	Russian	Male
Pyotr Seleznev	Пётр Селезнёв	New	Renewed	Died	1897	1949	1915	Russian	Male
Zinovie Serdiuk	Зиновий Сердюк	New	Renewed	Candidate	1903	1982	1925	Russian	Male
Ivan Sergeyev	Иван Сергеев	New	Renewed	Sentenced	1897	1942	1932	Russian	Male
Ivan Serov	Иван Серов	Not	Candidate	Candidate	1905	1990	1926	Russian	Male
Fazyl Shagimardanov	Фазыл Шагимарданов	New	Removed	Not	1906	1968	1927	Russian	Male
Boris Shaposhnikov	Борис Шапошников	New	Renewed	Died	1882	1945	1930	Russian	Male
Efim Shchadenko	Ефим Щаденко	—	Candidate	Died	1900	1951	1904	Ukrainian	Male
Terenty Shtykov	Терентий Штыков	New	Renewed	Not	1907	1964	1929	Belarusian	Male
Yakov Smushkevich	Яков Смушкевич	New	Renewed	Sentenced	1902	1941	1918	Russian	Male
Antanas Sniečkus	Антанас Снечкус	Not	Candidate	Member	1902	1974	1920	Lithuanian	Male
Leonid Sosnin	Леонид Соснин	New	Renewed	Not	1895	1973	1917	Russian	Male
Vasily Starchenko	Василий Старченко	New	Renewed	Died	1904	1948	1928	Ukrainian	Male
Maxim Starostin	Максим Старостин	New	Renewed	Died	1902	1948	1922	Russian	Male
Yakov Storozhev	Яков Сторожев	New	Renewed	Not	1911	1988	1930	Russian	Male
Ivan Tyulenev	Ива́н Тюле́нев	Not	Candidate	Not	1892	1978	1918	Russian	Male
Gavrii Veynberg	Гавриил Вейнберг	Candidate	Removed	Died	1891	1946	1906	Polish	Male
Ivan Vlasov	Иван Власов	New	Renewed	Not	1903	1969	1929	Russian	Male
Viktor Yartsev	Виктор Ярцев	New	Recalled	Sentenced	1904	1940	1920	Russian	Male
Ivan Yumashev	Ива́н Тюле́нев	Not	Candidate	Candidate	1895	1972	1918	Russian	Male
Aleksandr Zaporozhets	Александр Запорожец	Not	Candidate	Removed	1899	1959	1919	Russian	Male
Vasily Zhavoronkov	Василий Жаворонков	New	Renewed	Candidate	1906	1987	1929	Russian	Male
Polina Zhemchuzhina	Полина Жемчужина	New	Renewed	Not	1897	1970	1918	Russian	Female
Georgy Zhukov	Георгий Жуков	Not	Candidate	Removed	1896	1974	1919	Russian	Male
Viktor Zhuravlev	Виктор Журавлёв	New	Removed	Died	1902	1946	1920	Russian	Male
Vasily Zotov	Василий Зотов	New	Renewed	Not	1899	1977	1925	Russian	Male

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