# Central Committee of the 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 6th Congress, and sat from 3 August 1917 until 8 March 1918. The CC 1st Plenary Session established the Narrow Composition (abolished October 1917), the Politburo (abolished November 1917) and the Bureau (established in November 1917), while sanctioning the establishment of the Secretariat on the orders of the Narrow Composition.

## Plenary sessions

Plenary sessions of the Central Committee :
| Plenum | Date | Length |
| 1st Plenary Session | 4–5 August 1917 | 2 days |
| 2nd Plenary Session | 10 October 1917 | 1 day |
| 3rd Plenary Session | 16 October 1917 | 1 day |
| 4th Plenary Session | 20 October 1917 | 1 day |
| 5th Plenary Session | 24 October 1917 | 1 day |
| 6th Plenary Session | 7 November 1917 | 1 day |
| 7th Plenary Session | 29 November 1917 | 1 day |
| 8th Plenary Session | 11 December 1917 | 1 day |
| 9th Plenary Session | 9 January 1918 | 1 day |
| 10th Plenary Session | 22 February 1918 | 1 day |
| 11th Plenary Session | 23 February 1918 | 1 day |

## Composition
### Members

Members of the Central Committee of the 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) :
| Name | Cyrillic | April CC | 7th CC | Birth | Death | PM | Nationality | Gender |
| Jan Berzin | Ян Берзин | New | Candidate | 1881 | 1938 | 1902 | Latvian | Male |
| Andrei Bubnov | Андрей Бубнов | Candidate | Not | 1884 | 1938 | 1903 | Russian | Male |
| Nikolai Bukharin | Никола́й Буха́рин | New | Reelected | 1888 | 1938 | 1906 | Russian | Male |
| Felix Dzerzhinsky | Фе́ликс Дзержи́нский | New | Reelected | 1877 | 1926 | 1906 | Polish | Male |
| Lev Kamenev | Лев Ка́менев | Old | Reelected | 1883 | 1936 | 1901 | Jewish-Russian | Male |
| Alexandra Kollontai | Алекса́ндра Коллонта́й | New | Not | 1872 | 1952 | 1915 | Ukrainian-Finnish | Female |
| Nikolay Krestinsky | Никола́й Крести́нский | New | Reelected | 1883 | 1938 | 1901 | Ukrainian | Male |
| Vladimir Lenin | Владимир Ленин | Old | Reelected | 1870 | 1924 | 1898 | Russian | Male |
| Vladimir Milyutin | Владимир Милютин | Old | Not | 1884 | 1937 | 1910 | Russian | Male |
| Matvei Muranov | Матвей Муранов | New | Not | 1873 | 1959 | 1904 | Ukrainian | Male |
| Viktor Nogin | Ви́ктор Ноги́н | Old | Not | 1878 | 1924 | 1898 | Russian | Male |
| Alexei Rykov | Алексей Рыков | New | Not | 1881 | 1938 | 1899 | Russian | Male |
| Fyodor Sergeyev | Фёдор Серге́ев | New | Reelected | 1883 | 1921 | 1914 | Russian | Male |
| Stepan Shahumyan | Степан Шаумян | New | Not | 1878 | 1918 | 1898 | Armenian | Male |
| Ivar Smilga | Ивар Смилга | Old | Reelected | 1892 | 1938 | 1907 | Latvian | Male |
| Grigori Sokolnikov | Григорий Сокольников | New | Reelected | 1888 | 1939 | 1905 | Jewish | Male |
| Joseph Stalin | Ио́сиф Ста́лин | Old | Reelected | 1878 | 1953 | 1898 | Georgian | Male |
| Yakov Sverdlov | Я́ков Свердло́в | Old | Reelected | 1885 | 1919 | 1901 | Jewish | Male |
| Leon Trotsky | Лев Тро́цкий | New | Reelected | 1879 | 1940 | 1917 | Jewish | Male |
| Moisei Uritsky | Моисей Урицкий | New | Candidate | 1873 | 1918 | 1917 | Jewish | Male |
| Grigory Zinoviev | Григо́рий Зино́вьев | Old | Reelected | 1883 | 1936 | 1901 | Jewish | Male |

### Candidates

Candidate Members of the Central Committee of the 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) :
| Name | Cyrillic | April CC | 7th CC | Birth | Death | PM | Nationality | Gender |
| Prokofy Dzhaparidze | Прокофий Джапаридзе | New | Not | 1880 | 1918 | 1898 | Georgian | Male |
| Adolph Joffe | Адо́льф Ио́ффе | New | Candidate | 1883 | 1927 | 1910 | Karaite | Male |
| Aleksei Kiselyov | Алексей Киселёв | New | Candidate | 1879 | 1937 | 1898 | Russian | Male |
| Georgy Oppokov | Гео́ргий Оппо́ков | New | Candidate | 1888 | 1938 | 1903 | Russian | Male |
| Yevgeni Preobrazhensky | Евге́ний Преображе́нский | New | Not | 1886 | 1937 | 1903 | Russian | Male |
| Mykola Skrypnyk | Микола Скрипник | New | Not | 1872 | 1933 | 1898 | Ukrainian | Male |
| Elena Stasova | Еле́на Ста́сова | New | Member | 1873 | 1966 | 1898 | Russian | Female |
| Varvara Yakovleva | Варвара Яковлева | New | Not | 1884 | 1941 | 1904 | Jewish | Female |

### Prospectives

Prospective Members of the Central Committee of the 7th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) :
| Name | Cyrillic | April CC | 7th CC | Birth | Death | PM | Ethnicity | Gender | Portrait |
| Valerian Osinsky | Валериан Оболенский | New | Not | 1887 | 1938 | 1907 | Russian | Male | |
| Ivan Teodorovich | Ива́н Теодо́рович | Candidate | Not | 1875 | 1937 | 1898 | Polish | Male | |