# Central Committee of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 8th Congress, and sat from 23 March 1919 until 5 April 1920. The CC 1st Plenary Session renewed the composition of the Politburo, Secretariat and the Organizational Bureau (OB) of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

## Plenary sessions

Plenary sessions of the Central Committee :
| Plenum | Date | Length |
| 1st Plenary Session | 20 March 1919 | 1 day |
| 2nd Plenary Session | 25 March 1919 | 1 day |
| 3rd Plenary Session | 13 April 1919 | 1 day |
| 4th Plenary Session | 5 May 1919 | 1 day |
| 5th Plenary Session | 10–11 June 1919 | 2 days |
| 6th Plenary Session | 15 June 1919 | 1 day |
| 7th Plenary Session | 3–4 July 1919 | 2 days |
| 8th Plenary Session | 21, 26 September 1919 | 2 days |
| 9th Plenary Session | 29 November 1919 | 1 day |
| 10th Plenary Session | 31 January 1920 | 1 day |
| 11th Plenary Session | 6 February 1920 | 1 day |

## Composition
### Members

Members of the Central Committee of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) :
| Name | Cyrillic | 7th CC | 9th CC | Birth | Death | PM | Nationality | Gender |
| Alexander Beloborodov | Александр Белобородов | New | Candidate | 1891 | 1938 | 1907 | Russian | Male |
| Nikolai Bukharin | Никола́й Буха́рин | Old | Reelected | 1888 | 1938 | 1906 | Russian | Male |
| Felix Dzerzhinsky | Фе́ликс Дзержи́нский | Old | Reelected | 1877 | 1926 | 1906 | Polish | Male |
| Mikhail Kalinin | Михаил Калинин | New | Reelected | 1875 | 1946 | 1898 | Russian | Male |
| Lev Kamenev | Лев Ка́менев | Old | Reelected | 1883 | 1936 | 1901 | Jewish-Russian | Male |
| Nikolay Krestinsky | Никола́й Крести́нский | Old | Reelected | 1883 | 1938 | 1901 | Ukrainian | Male |
| Vladimir Lenin | Владимир Ленин | Old | Reelected | 1870 | 1924 | 1898 | Russian | Male |
| Matvei Muranov | Матвей Муранов | New | Candidate | 1873 | 1959 | 1904 | Ukrainian | Male |
| Karl Radek | Карл Радек | New | Reelected | 1885 | 1939 | 1903 | Jewish | Male |
| Christian Rakovsky | Христиан Раковский | New | Reelected | 1873 | 1941 | 1917 | Bulgarian | Male |
| Leonid Serebryakov | Леонид Серебряков | New | Reelected | 1890 | 1937 | 1905 | Russian | Male |
| Ivar Smilga | Ивар Смилга | Old | Candidate | 1892 | 1938 | 1907 | Latvian | Male |
| Joseph Stalin | Ио́сиф Ста́лин | Old | Reelected | 1878 | 1953 | 1898 | Georgian | Male |
| Elena Stasova | Еле́на Ста́сова | Old | Not | 1873 | 1966 | 1898 | Russian | Female |
| Pēteris Stučka | Пётр Сту́чка | Candidate | Candidate | 1865 | 1932 | 1906 | Latvian | Male |
| Mikhail Tomsky | Михаил Томский | New | Reelected | 1880 | 1936 | 1904 | Russian | Male |
| Leon Trotsky | Лев Тро́цкий | Old | Reelected | 1879 | 1940 | 1917 | Jewish | Male |
| Grigory Yevdokimov | Григорий Евдокимов | New | Not | 1884 | 1936 | 1903 | Russian | Male |
| Grigory Zinoviev | Григо́рий Зино́вьев | Old | Reelected | 1883 | 1936 | 1901 | Jewish | Male |

### Candidates

Candidate Members of the Central Committee of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) :
| Name | Cyrillic | 7th CC | 9th CC | Birth | Death | PM | Nationality | Gender |
| Andrei Bubnov | Андрей Бубнов | New | Not | 1884 | 1938 | 1903 | Russian | Male |
| Jūlijs Daniševskis | Владимир Милютин | New | Not | 1884 | 1937 | 1906 | Latvian | Male |
| Vincas Mickevičius | Винцас Мицкявичюс | New | Not | 1880 | 1935 | 1906 | Lithuanian | Male |
| Vasily Schmidt | Василий Шмидт | Member | Not | 1886 | 1938 | 1905 | German | Male |
| Fyodor Sergeyev | Фёдор Серге́ев | Member | Member | 1895 | 1921 | 1914 | Russian | Male |
| Ivan Smirnov | Иван Смирнов | New | Member | 1881 | 1936 | 1899 | Russian | Male |
| Mikhail Vladimirsky | Михаи́л Влади́мирский | Member | Not | 1874 | 1951 | 1898 | Russian | Male |
| Yemelyan Yaroslavsky | Емельян Ярославский | New | Candidate | 1878 | 1943 | 1898 | Jewish | Male |