# Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) sat from 10 February 1934 until the convening of the 18th Congress on 10 March 1939. Its 1st Plenary Session elected the Politburo, Secretariat and Orgburo. The 17th Congress was labelled the "Congress of Victors" to mark the success of the first five-year plan and the collectivization of agriculture. The CC 1st Plenary Session elected Joseph Stalin General Secretary of the Central Committee, and Lazar Kaganovich continued to serve as Stalin's deputy, an informal post referred to by Sovietologists as Second Secretary, and was empowered to manage party business and sign Politburo resolutions when Stalin was away from Moscow.
This Central Committee composition saw the de-formalisation of politics; for example, the number of Politburo meetings was reduced to 16 for the year of 1934. Politburo decisions were made either by polling the members or informal meeting between Stalin and other Politburo members. According to Ukrainian historian Oleg Khlevniuk the "procedures followed by the Politburo became increasingly simplified as it was transformed from a collective body into an appendage of a decision-making system that rested on Stalin's sole authority. According to Vadim Rogovin, "During the period of the Great Purge, the rights of the Central Committee and its members were restricted even more", noting that CC members lost the right to attend Politburo sessions or being informed on the decisions taken by the Politburo, Secretariat or the Orgburo. When looking back, Nikita Khrushchev lamented the situation; "by 1938, the earlier democracy in the Central Committee had already been greatly undermined. For instance, as a candidate member of the Politburo, I did not receive materials of our sessions. ... I received only the material which Stalin sent to me on his own orders."
Of the 139 full members and candidate members elected at the 17th Party Congress, 98 people were killed in the period 1936–1940. Of these 44 (out of 71) were full members, while 55 (out of 68) were candidate members. Of those arrested, over 80 percent of them were below the age of 50. When the 18th Party Congress convened in 1939, 31 individuals remained in the Central Committee. Of these, seven were not reelected, and of them five were pensioned or relieved of leading offices (Grigory Petrovsky, Gleb Krzhizhanovsky, Grigory Broydo, Mikhail Chuvyrin and Isaak Schwartz) while Tikhon Yurkin and Avraami Zavenyagin were reelected to the CC at the 19th Party Congress (in 1952) and the 20th Party Congress (in 1956) respectively. Of the 24 reelected at the 18th Party Congress, four would be subject to violent repression (Mikhail Kaganovich in 1941, Solomon Lozovsky in 1952, Lavrentiy Beria in 1953 and Mir Jafar Baghirov in 1956). Klavdiya Nikolayeva became the only CC member who had previously been active in intra-party opposition to survive the purge.
When asked in an interview how the Central Committee approved its own destruction (the decision to expel a member from the CC or for a member to be arrested by the authorities had to be approved by the CC itself through a plenary session), Vyacheslav Molotov replied; "In the first place, on democratic centralism—Listen, it did not happen that a minority expelled a majority. It happened gradually. Seventy expelled 10–15 people, then 60 expelled another 15. All in line with majority and minority. ... Essentially, it happened that a minority of the composition of the TsK [CC] remained of this majority, but without formal violation [of democratic centralism]." According to J. Arch Getty and Oleg Naumov the CC "In the name of party unity and with a desperate feeling of corporate self-preservation, the nomenklatura committed suicide." However, there were some within the CC who breached party tradition and spoke against the purges, such as Grigory Kaminsky and Osip Piatnitsky for example.

## Plenums

The CC was not a permanent institution. The CC was convened for fourteen plenary sessions between the 17th Congress and the 18th 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 | 10 February 1934 | 1 day |
| 2nd Plenary Session | 29 June – 1 July 1934 | 3 days |
| 3rd Plenary Session | 25–28 November 1934 | 4 days |
| 4th Plenary Session | 1 February 1935 | 1 day |
| 5th Plenary Session | 28 February 1935 | 1 day |
| 6th Plenary Session | 5–7 June 1935 | 3 days |
| 7th Plenary Session | 21–25 December 1935 | 5 days |
| 8th Plenary Session | 1–4 June 1936 | 4 days |
| 9th Plenary Session | 4, 7 July 1936 | 2 days |
| 10th Plenary Session | 23 February – 5 March 1937 | 12 days |
| 11th Plenary Session | 26–29 June 1937 | 4 days |
| 12th Plenary Session | 11–12 October 1937 | 2 days |
| 13th Plenary Session | 11, 14, 18, 20 January 1938 | 4 days |
| 14th Plenary Session | 9–11 January 1938 | 3 days |

## Apparatus

Individuals employed by Central Committee's bureaus, departments and newspapers made up the apparatus between the 17th Congress and the 18th 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 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) :
| Institution | Leader | Cyrillic | Took office | Left office | Length of tenure | Nationality | Gender |
| Administrator of Affairs | Timofey Samsonov | Тимофей Самсонов | 10 February 1934 | 1935 | 1 year and 111 days | Russian | Male |
| Administrator of Affairs | Ivan Lychov | Иван Лычев | 1935 | May 1938 | 3 years and 120 days | Russian | Male |
| Administrator of Affairs | Dmitry Krupin | Дмитрий Крупин | May 1938 | 22 March 1939 | 325 days | Russian | Male |
| Agriculture Department | Andrei Zhdanov | Андрей Жданов | 3 March 1934 | 10 April 1934 | 38 days | Russian | Male |
| Agriculture Department | Yakov Yakovlev | Я́ков Я́ковлев | 10 April 1934 | 1936 | 2 years and 52 days | Ukrainian | Male |
| Bolshevik | Aleksei Stetskii | Алексе́й Сте́цкий | 10 February 1934 | 26 April 1938 | 4 years and 55 days | Ukrainian | Male |
| Cultural and Educational Work Department | Alexander Shcherbakov | Алекса́ндр Щербако́в | 13 May 1935 | 1936 | 1 year and 19 days | Russian | Male |
| Cultural and Educational Work Department | Aleksey Angarov | Алексей Ангаров | 1936 | July 1937 | 1 year and 30 days | Russian | Male |
| Industrial Department | Nikolai Yezhov | Николай Ежов | 3 March 1934 | 3 March 1935 | 1 year and 0 days | Russian | Male |
| Industrial Department | Andrey Andreyev | Андрей Андреев | 3 March 1935 | 13 May 1937 | 2 years and 71 days | Russian | Male |
| Industrial Department | Mikhail Tselishev | Михаил Целищев | 13 May 1937 | September 1937 | 111 days | Russian | Male |
| Leninist Culture and Propaganda Department | Aleksei Stetskii | Алексей Стецкий | 10 February 1934 | 13 May 1935 | 1 year and 92 days | Russian | Male |
| Planning, Finance and Trade Department | Andrei Zhdanov | Андрей Жданов | 10 April 1934 | 1934 | 235 days | Russian | Male |
| Planning, Finance and Trade Department | Karl Bauman | Карл Бауман | 1934 | 20 January 1938 | 4 years and 19 days | Latvian | Male |
| Political-Administrative Department | Yakov Brezanovsky | Яков Брезановский | 10 March 1934 | February 1935 | 328 days | Polish | Male |
| Political-Administrative Department | Osip Piatnitsky | Осип Пятницкий | 19 August 1935 | 7 July 1937 | 1 year and 322 days | Russian | Male |
| Pravda | Lev Mekhlis | Лев Мехлис | 10 February 1934 | 4 September 1937 | 3 years and 206 days | Ukrainian | Male |
| Press and Publications Department | Boris Tal | Борис Таль | 13 May 1935 | 4 September 1937 | 2 years and 114 days | Azerbaijani | Male |
| Press and Publications Department | Lev Mekhlis | Лев Мехлис | 4 September 1937 | 2 January 1938 | 120 days | Ukrainian | Male |
| Press and Publications Department | Alexander Niktin | Александр Никитин | 2 January 1938 | 21 November 1938 | 323 days | Russian | Male |
| Propaganda Department | Aleksei Stetskii | Алексей Стецкий | 13 May 1935 | 26 April 1938 | 2 years and 348 days | Russian | Male |
| Propaganda Department | Andrei Zhdanov | Андрей Жданов | 21 November 1938 | 22 March 1939 | 121 days | Russian | Male |
| Science and Scientific-technological Discoveries Department | Karl Bauman | Карл Бауман | 13 May 1935 | 14 April 1937 | 1 year and 336 days | Latvian | Male |
| School Department | Boris Volin | Борис Волин | 13 May 1935 | 1936 | 1 year and 19 days | Russian | Male |
| Special Sector | Alexander Poskrebyshev | Александр Поскрёбышев | 10 February 1934 | 22 March 1939 | 5 years and 40 days | Russian | Male |
| Transportation Department | Lazar Kaganovich | Лазарь Каганович | 10 March 1934 | 9 July 1935 | 1 year and 121 days | Russian | Male |
| Transportation Department | Nikolai Zimin | Николай Зимин | 9 July 1935 | 10 September 1938 | 3 years and 63 days | Russian | Male |

## Composition
### Members

Members of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) :
| Name | Cyrillic | 16th CC | 18th CC | Birth | Death | PM | Nationality | Gender | Portrait |
| Pyotr Alexeyev | Пётр Алексеев | Old | Removed | 1877 | 1936 | 1914 | Russian | Male | — |
| Andrey Andreyev | Андрей Андреев | Old | Reelected | 1895 | 1971 | 1914 | Russian | Male | |
| Nikolay Antipov | Николай Антипов | Old | Removed | 1894 | 1938 | 1912 | Russian | Male | |
| Aleksei Badayev | Алексей Бадаев | Old | Reelected | 1883 | 1951 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
| Mir Jafar Baghirov | Мир Багиров | Promoted | Reelected | 1896 | 1956 | 1917 | Azerbaijani | Male | |
| Vsevolod Balitsky | Всеволод Балицкий | New | Removed | 1892 | 1937 | 1915 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Karl Bauman | Карл Бауман | Old | Removed | 1892 | 1937 | 1907 | Latvian | Male | — |
| Lavrentiy Beria | Лавре́нтий Бе́рия | New | Reelected | 1899 | 1953 | 1917 | Georgian | Male | |
| Vasily Blyukher | Василий Блюхер | Promoted | Arrested | 1899 | 1938 | 1916 | Russian | Male | |
| Andrei Bubnov | Андрей Бубнов | Old | Removed | 1884 | 1938 | 1903 | Russian | Male | |
| Nikolai Bulganin | Николай Булганин | Promoted | Reelected | 1895 | 1975 | 1917 | Russian | Male | |
| Anton Bulin | Антон Булин | Promoted | Removed | 1894 | 1938 | 1914 | Russian | Male | — |
| Mikhail Chernov | Михаил Чернов | New | Removed | 1891 | 1938 | 1920 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Vlas Chubar | Влас Чубар | Old | Arrested | 1891 | 1939 | 1907 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Mikhail Chudov | Михаил Чудов | Old | Removed | 1893 | 1937 | 1913 | Russian | Male | — |
| Mikhail Chuvyrin | Михаил Чувырин | Old | Not | 1883 | 1947 | 1903 | Russian | Male | — |
| Robert Eikhe | Роберт Эйхе | Old | Arrested | 1890 | 1940 | 1905 | Latvian | Male | |
| Avel Enukidze | А́вель Енуки́дзе | Old | Removed | 1877 | 1937 | 1898 | Georgian | Male | — |
| Yan Gamarnik | Ян Гамарник | Old | Suicide | 1894 | 1937 | 1916 | Ukrainian | Male | — |
| Vladimir Ivanov | Владимир Иванов | Candidate | Removed | 1893 | 1938 | 1915 | Russian | Male | |
| Akmal Ikramov | Акмаль Икрамов | Candidate | Removed | 1898 | 1938 | 1918 | Uzbek | Male | |
| Uraz Isayev | Ураз Исаев | Candidate | Removed | 1899 | 1938 | 1920 | Kazakh | Male | — |
| Ivan Kabakov | Иван Кабаков | Old | Removed | 1891 | 1937 | 1914 | Russian | Male | — |
| Lazar Kaganovich | Лазарь Каганович | Old | Reelected | 1893 | 1991 | 1911 | Russian | Male | |
| Mikhail Kaganovich | Михаил Каганович | New | Reelected | 1888 | 1941 | 1905 | Russian | Male | |
| Mikhail Kalinin | Михаил Калинин | Old | Reelected | 1875 | 1946 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
| Lavrentiy Kartvelishvili | Лаврентий Картвелишвили | Candidate | Removed | 1890 | 1938 | 1910 | Georgian | Male | |
| Mendel Khatayevich | Мендель Хатаевич | Old | Removed | 1893 | 1937 | 1913 | Russian | Male | |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Никита Хрущёв | New | Reelected | 1894 | 1971 | 1918 | Russian | Male | |
| Sergey Kirov | Серге́й Ки́ров | Old | Murder | 1886 | 1934 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
| Vilhelm Knorin | Вильгельм Кнорин | Old | Removed | 1890 | 1938 | 1910 | Latvian | Male | |
| Ivan Kodatsky | Иван Кодацкий | Old | Removed | 1893 | 1937 | 1914 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Alexander Kosarev | Александр Косарев | Candidate | Arrested | 1903 | 1939 | 1919 | Russian | Male | |
| Joseph Kosior | Иосиф Косиор | Old | Died | 1889 | 1937 | 1908 | Polish | Male | |
| Stanislav Kosior | Станислав Косиор | Old | Arrested | 1889 | 1939 | 1907 | Polish | Male | |
| Nadezhda Krupskaya | Наде́жда Кру́пская | Old | Died | 1869 | 1939 | 1898 | Russian | Female | |
| Alexander Krinitsky | Александр Криницкий | Candidate | Removed | 1894 | 1937 | 1915 | Russian | Male | |
| Gleb Krzhizhanovsky | Глеб Кржижано́вский | Old | Not | 1872 | 1959 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
| Mikhail Kulkov | Михаил Кульков | Promoted | Removed | 1891 | 1939 | 1915 | Russian | Male | — |
| Valerian Kuybyshev | Валериан Куйбышев | Old | Died | 1888 | 1935 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
| Dmitry Lebed | Дмитрий Лебедь | Old | Removed | 1893 | 1937 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
| Maxim Litvinov | Макси́м Литви́нов | New | Reelected | 1876 | 1951 | 1898 | Lithuanian | Male | |
| Semyon Lobov | Семён Лобов | Old | Removed | 1888 | 1937 | 1913 | Russian | Male | — |
| Solomon Lozovsky | Соломон Лозовский | Promoted | Reelected | 1892 | 1952 | 1901 | Russian | Male | |
| Isidor Lyubimov | Исидор Любимов | Old | Removed | 1882 | 1937 | 1902 | Russian | Male | — |
| Ivan Makarov | Иван Макаров | Promoted | Candidate | 1888 | 1949 | 1905 | Russian | Male | — |
| Dmitry Manuilsky | Дмитро Мануїльський | Old | Reelected | 1883 | 1959 | 1903 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Lev Mekhlis | Лев Ме́хлис | Promoted | Reelected | 1889 | 1953 | 1918 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Valery Mezhlauk | Валерий Межлаук | Candidate | Removed | 1893 | 1938 | 1917 | Latvian | Male | |
| Mikhail Mikhailov | Михаил Михайлов | Promoted | Removed | 1902 | 1938 | 1919 | Russian | Male | — |
| Anastas Mikoyan | Анаста́с Микоя́н | Old | Reelected | 1895 | 1978 | 1915 | Armenian | Male | |
| Levon Mirzoyan | Левон Мирзоян | New | Arrested | 1887 | 1939 | 1917 | Armenian | Male | |
| Vyacheslav Molotov | Вячеслав Молотов | Old | Reelected | 1890 | 1986 | 1906 | Russian | Male | |
| Klavdiya Nikolayeva | Клавдия Николаева | New | Reelected | 1893 | 1944 | 1909 | Russian | Female | |
| Ivan Nosov | Иван Носов | Old | Removed | 1888 | 1937 | 1905 | Russian | Male | — |
| Grigol Ordzhonikidze | Григо́рий Орджоники́дзе | Old | Suicide | 1886 | 1937 | 1903 | Georgian | Male | |
| Nikolay Pakhomov | Николай Пахомов | Candidate | Removed | 1890 | 1938 | 1912 | Russian | Male | |
| Grigory Petrovsky | Григо́рій Петро́вський | Old | Not | 1878 | 1958 | 1898 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Osip Piatnitsky | Осип Пятницкий | Old | Removed | 1882 | 1938 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
| Pavel Postyshev | Григо́рій Петро́вський | Old | Arrested | 1887 | 1939 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
| Eduard Pramnek | Эдуард Прамнэк | Promoted | Removed | 1899 | 1938 | 1917 | Lithuanian | Male | |
| Georgy Pyatakov | Георгий Пятаков | Old | Arrested | 1890 | 1937 | 1910 | Russian | Male | |
| Mikhail Razumov | Михаил Разумов | New | Removed | 1894 | 1937 | 1913 | Ukrainian | Male | — |
| Jānis Rudzutaks | Ян Рудзутак | Old | Removed | 1887 | 1938 | 1905 | Latvian | Male | |
| Moisei Rukhimovich | Моисей Рухимович | Old | Removed | 1889 | 1938 | 1913 | Russian | Male | |
| Ivan Rumyantsev | Иван Румянцев | Old | Removed | 1886 | 1937 | 1905 | Russian | Male | |
| Kuzma Ryndin | Кузьма Рындин | Old | Removed | 1893 | 1938 | 1915 | Russian | Male | — |
| Boris Sheboldayev | Борис Шеболдаев | Old | Removed | 1895 | 1937 | 1914 | Russian | Male | |
| Nikolai Shvernik | Николай Шверник | Old | Reelected | 1888 | 1970 | 1905 | Russian | Male | |
| Pyotr Smorodin | Пётр Смородин | Promoted | Removed | 1897 | 1938 | 1917 | Russian | Male | |
| Joseph Stalin | Ио́сиф Ста́лин | Old | Reelected | 1878 | 1953 | 1898 | Georgian | Male | |
| Aleksei Stetskii | Алексей Стецкий | Old | Arrested | 1896 | 1938 | 1915 | Russian | Male | |
| Daniil Sulimov | Даниил Сулимов | Old | Removed | 1890 | 1937 | 1905 | Russian | Male | |
| Aleksandr Ugarov | Александр Угаров | Promoted | Removed | 1900 | 1939 | 1917 | Russian | Male | |
| Konstantin Ukhanov | Константин Уханов | Old | Removed | 1891 | 1937 | 1907 | Russian | Male | |
| Iosif Vareikis | Иосиф Варейкис | Old | Removed | 1894 | 1938 | 1913 | Lithuanian | Male | — |
| Kliment Voroshilov | Климент Ворошилов | Old | Reelected | 1881 | 1969 | 1903 | Russian | Male | |
| Yakov Yakovlev | Я́ков Я́ковлев | Old | Removed | 1896 | 1938 | 1913 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Genrikh Yagoda | Генрих Ягода | Candidate | Removed | 1891 | 1938 | 1907 | Russian | Male | |
| Iona Yakir | Иона Якир | Candidate | Removed | 1896 | 1937 | 1917 | Moldovan | Male | |
| Yefim Yevdokimov | Ефи́м Евдоки́мов | New | Arrested | 1891 | 1940 | 1918 | Russian | Male | |
| Nikolai Yezhov | Николай Ежов | New | Not | 1895 | 1940 | 1917 | Russian | Male | |
| Isaak Zelensky | Исаак Зеленский | Old | Removed | 1890 | 1937 | 1906 | Russian | Male | |
| Andrei Zhdanov | Андрей Жданов | Old | Reelected | 1896 | 1948 | 1915 | Russian | Male | |
| Ivan Zhukov | Иван Жуков | Old | Removed | 1889 | 1937 | 1909 | Russian | Male | — |

### Candidates

Candidate Members of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) :
| Name | Cyrillic | 16th CC | 18th CC | Birth | Death | PM | Nationality | Gender | Portrait |
| Mir Jafar Baghirov | Мир Багиров | New | Promoted | 1896 | 1956 | 1917 | Azerbaijani | Male | |
| Georgy Blagonravov | Георгий Благонравов | New | Removed | 1896 | 1938 | 1917 | Russian | Male | |
| Vasily Blyukher | Георгий Благонравов | New | Promoted | 1890 | 1938 | 1916 | Russian | Male | |
| Grigory Broydo | Григорий Бройдо | New | Not | 1883 | 1956 | 1918 | Russian | Male | |
| Semyon Budyonny | Семён Будённый | New | Member | 1883 | 1973 | 1919 | Russian | Male | |
| Nikolai Bukharin | Никола́й Буха́рин | Member | Removed | 1888 | 1938 | 1906 | Russian | Male | |
| Nikolai Bulganin | Николай Булганин | New | Promoted | 1895 | 1975 | 1917 | Russian | Male | |
| Anton Bulin | Антон Булин | New | Promoted | 1894 | 1938 | 1914 | Russian | Male | — |
| Yakov Bykin | Яков Быкин | New | Removed | 1888 | 1938 | 1912 | Russian | Male | |
| Nikolai Demchenko | Николай Демченко | New | Removed | 1896 | 1937 | 1916 | Ukrainian | Male | — |
| Terenty Deribas | Терентий Дерибас | New | Removed | 1896 | 1937 | 1903 | Russian | Male | |
| Shalva Eliava | Шалва Элиава | Candidate | Removed | 1883 | 1937 | 1904 | Georgian | Male | |
| Nikolai Filatov | Николай Филатов | New | Removed | 1891 | 1939 | 1912 | Russian | Male | — |
| Nikolai Gikalo | Николай Гикало | New | Removed | 1897 | 1938 | 1917 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Nikolay Goloded | Николай Голодед | Candidate | Removed | 1894 | 1937 | 19181 | Belarusian | Male | |
| Fyodor Gryadinsky | Фёдор Грядинский | Candidate | Removed | 1893 | 1938 | 1912 | Russian | Male | |
| Hryhoriy Hrynko | Григорий Гринько | New | Removed | 1890 | 1938 | 1919 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Uraz Isayev | Ураз Исаев | Candidate | Promoted | 1899 | 1938 | 1920 | Kazakh | Male | — |
| Anna Kalgyna | Анна Калыгина | Candidate | Removed | 1895 | 1937 | 1915 | Russian | Female | — |
| Moisei Kalmanovich | Моисей Калманович | Candidate | Removed | 1888 | 1937 | 1917 | Russian | Male | — |
| Grigory Kaminsky | Григорий Каминский | Candidate | Removed | 1895 | 1938 | 1913 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Nikolay Komarov | Николай Комаров | Member | Removed | 1886 | 1937 | 1909 | Russian | Male | |
| Nikolay Kubyak | Николай Кубяк | Member | Removed | 1881 | 1937 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
| Mikhail Kulkov | Михаил Кульков | New | Removed | 1891 | 1939 | 1915 | Russian | Male | — |
| Vasily Kuritsyn | Василий Курицын | Candidate | Removed | 1892 | 1937 | 1917 | Russian | Male | — |
| Alfred Lepa | Альфред Лепа | New | Removed | 1892 | 1937 | 1914 | Latvian | Male | — |
| Solomon Lozovsky | Соломон Лозовский | Candidate | Promoted | 1892 | 1952 | 1901 | Russian | Male | |
| Panas Lyubchenko | Соломон Лозовский | New | Suicide | 1897 | 1937 | 1913 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Ivan Makarov | Иван Макаров | New | Promoted | 1888 | 1949 | 1905 | Russian | Male | — |
| Lev Mekhlis | Лев Мехлис | New | Promoted | 1889 | 1953 | 1918 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Mikhail Mikhailov | Михаил Михайлов | New | Promoted | 1902 | 1938 | 1919 | Russian | Male | — |
| Vasily Mikhailov | Василий Михайлов | Candidate | Removed | 1894 | 1937 | 1915 | Russian | Male | |
| Gazanfar Musabekov | Газанфар Мусабеков | Candidate | Removed | 1888 | 1938 | 1918 | Azerbaijani | Male | |
| Valerian Osinsky | Валериан Оболенский | Candidate | Removed | 1887 | 1938 | 1907 | Russian | Male | — |
| Nikolay Pakhomov | Николай Пахомов | Candidate | Promoted | 1890 | 1938 | 1912 | Russian | Male | |
| Ivan Pavlunovsky | Иван Павлуновский | New | Removed | 1888 | 1937 | 1905 | Russian | Male | — |
| Vladimir Polonsky | Владимир Полонский | Candidate | Removed | 1893 | 1937 | 1912 | Russian | Male | |
| Nikolai Popov | Николай Попов | Candidate | Removed | 1891 | 1938 | 1906 | Russian | Male | — |
| Alexander Poskrebyshev | Александр Поскрёбышев | New | Member | 1891 | 1965 | 1917 | Russian | Male | — |
| Boris Pozern | Борис Позерн | Candidate | Arrested | 1882 | 1939 | 1902 | Russian | Male | |
| Eduard Pramnek | Эдуард Прамнэк | New | Promoted | 1899 | 1938 | 1917 | Latvian | Male | |
| Vladimir Ptukha | Владимир Птуха | Candidate | Removed | 1894 | 1938 | 1917 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Arkady Rosengolts | Аркадий Розенгольц | New | Removed | 1889 | 1938 | 1905 | Belarusian | Male | |
| Alexei Rykov | Алексей Рыков | Member | Removed | 1881 | 1938 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
| Sarkis Sarkisov | Саркис Саркисов | New | Removed | 1898 | 1938 | 1917 | Armenian | Male | |
| Isaak Schwartz | Исаак Шварц | Candidate | Not | 1879 | 1951 | 1899 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Alexei Sedelnikov | Алексей Седельников | Candidate | Removed | 1894 | 1938 | 1914 | Russian | Male | — |
| Boris Semenov | Борис Семёнов | Candidate | Removed | 1890 | 1937 | 1907 | Russian | Male | — |
| Alexander Serebrovsky | Александр Серебровский | Candidate | Removed | 1884 | 1938 | 1903 | Russian | Male | |
| Aleksandr Shteyngart | Александр Штейнгарт | New | Died | 1887 | 1934 | 1913 | Ukrainian | Male | — |
| Vladimir Shubrikov | Владимир Шубриков | New | Removed | 1895 | 1937 | 1917 | Russian | Male | — |
| Pyotr Smorodin | Пётр Смородин | Candidate | Promoted | 1897 | 1939 | 1917 | Russian | Male | |
| Grigori Sokolnikov | Григорий Сокольников | Candidate | Arrested | 1888 | 1939 | 1905 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Konstantin Strievsky | Константин Стриевский | Member | Removed | 1885 | 1938 | 1902 | Belarusian | Male | — |
| Pyotr Struppe | Пётр Струппе | New | Removed | 1889 | 1937 | 1907 | Russian | Male | |
| Mikhail Tomsky | Михаил Томский | Member | Suicide | 1880 | 1936 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
| Ivan Tovstukha | Иван Товстуха | New | Died | 1889 | 1935 | 1913 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Mikhail Tukhachevsky | Михаи́л Тухаче́вский | New | Arrested | 1893 | 1937 | 1918 | Russian | Male | |
| Ieronim Uborevich | Иероним Уборевич | Candidate | Removed | 1896 | 1937 | 1917 | Lithuanian | Male | |
| Aleksandr Ugarov | Александр Угаров | New | Promoted | 1900 | 1939 | 1917 | Russian | Male | |
| Józef Unszlicht | Ио́сиф У́ншлихт | Candidate | Removed | 1879 | 1938 | 1900 | Polish | Male | |
| Yevgeny Veger | Евгений Вегер | New | Removed | 1899 | 1937 | 1917 | Russian | Male | — |
| Alexander Yegorov | Александр Егоров | New | Arrested | 1883 | 1939 | 1918 | Russian | Male | |
| Gavrii Veynberg | Гавриил Вейнберг | Candidate | Candidate | 1891 | 1946 | 1906 | Polish | Male | — |
| Ivan Yeromin | Иван Ерёмин | New | Removed | 1895 | 1937 | 1917 | Russian | Male | — |
| Tikhon Yurkin | Тихон Юркин | Candidate | Not | 1898 | 1986 | 1915 | Russian | Male | |
| Avraami Zavenyagin | Авраамий Завенягин | New | Not | 1901 | 1956 | 1917 | Russian | Male | |
| Volodymyr Zatonsky | Володи́мир Зато́нський | New | Removed | 1888 | 1938 | 1917 | Ukrainian | Male | |