# Central Committee of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 12th Congress, and sat from 25 April 1923 until 31 May 1924. The CC 1st Plenary Session renewed the composition of the Politburo, Secretariat and the Organizational Bureau (OB) of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

## Plenums

The CC was not a permanent institution. It convened plenary sessions, of which ten CC plenary sessions and one joint CC–Central Control Commission (CCC) plenary sessions were held between the 12th Congress and the 13th 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 | 26 April 1923 | 1 day |
| 2nd Plenary Session | 26–27 June 1923 | 2 days |
| 3rd Plenary Session | 4 July 1923 | 1 day |
| 4th Plenary Session | 23–25 September 1923 | 3 days |
| Joint Plenary Session | 25–27 October 1923 | 3 days |
| 5th Plenary Session | 14–15 January 1924 | 2 days |
| 6th Plenary Session | 21–22 January 1924 | 2 days |
| 7th Plenary Session | 29, 31 January 1924 | 2 days |
| 8th Plenary Session | 3 February 1924 | 1 day |
| 9th Plenary Session | 31 March – 2 April 1924 | 3 days |
| 10th Plenary Session | 21 May 1924 | 1 day |

## Apparatus

Individuals employed by Central Committee's bureaus, departments and newspapers made up the apparatus between the 12th Congress and the 13th 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 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) :
| Institution | Leader | Cyrillic | Took office | Left office | Length of tenure | Nationality | Gender |
| Accounting and Distribution Department | Vilhelm Knorin | Вильге́льм Кно́рин | 25 April 1923 | 31 May 1924 | 1 year and 36 days | Latvian | Male |
| Administrator of Affairs | Ivan Ksenofontov | Иван Ксенофонтов | 25 April 1923 | 31 May 1924 | 1 year and 36 days | Greek | Male |
| Agitation and Propaganda Department | Andrei Bubnov | Андрей Бубнов | 25 April 1923 | 31 May 1924 | 1 year and 36 days | Russian | Male |
| Bolshevik | Nikolai Bukharin | Никола́й Буха́рин | 3 January 1924 | 31 May 1924 | 149 days | Russian | Male |
| Bureau of the Secretariat | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Central Asian Bureau | Jānis Rudzutaks | Ян Рудзутак | 25 April 1923 | 31 May 1924 | 1 year and 36 days | Latvian | Male |
| Department for Work Among Women | Sofia Smidovich | Софья Смидович | 25 April 1923 | 31 May 1924 | 1 year and 36 days | Russian | Female |
| Department of Party History | Mikhail Olminsky | Михаил Ольминский | 25 April 1923 | 31 May 1924 | 1 year and 36 days | Russian | Male |
| Far Eastern Bureau | Nikolai Kubyak | Николай Кубяк | 25 April 1923 | 31 May 1924 | 1 year and 36 days | Russian | Male |
| Finance Department | M.I. Ruski | М. И. Раскин | 25 April 1923 | 31 May 1924 | 1 year and 36 days | Russian | Male |
| Head of the Administration of Central Committee Affairs | Alexander Poskrebyshev | Александр Поскрёбышев | 25 April 1923 | 31 May 1924 | 1 year and 36 days | Russian | Male |
| North-West Bureau | Ivan Moskvin | Иван Москвин | 25 April 1923 | 31 May 1924 | 1 year and 36 days | Russian | Male |
| Organizational and Instructional Department | Lazar Kaganovich | Лазарь Каганович | 25 April 1923 | 27 July 1923 | 93 days | Jewish | Male |
| Organizational and Instructional Department | Ivan Korotkov | Иван Коротков | 27 July 1923 | 31 May 1924 | 309 days | Russian | Male |
| Pravda | Nikolai Bukharin | Никола́й Буха́рин | 25 April 1923 | 31 May 1924 | 1 year and 36 days | Russian | Male |
| Press Department | Yakov Yakovlev | Я́ков Я́ковлев | February 1924 | 31 May 1924 | 120 days | Jewish | Male |
| Siberian Bureau | Stanislav Kosior | Станислав Косиор | 25 April 1923 | 31 May 1924 | 1 year and 36 days | Polish | Male |
| South-East Bureau | Anastas Mikoyan | Анастас Микоян | 25 April 1923 | 31 May 1924 | 1 year and 36 days | Armenian | Male |
| Statistical Department | Stanislav Strumilin | Станисла́в Струми́лин | 25 April 1923 | 31 May 1924 | 1 year and 36 days | Russian | Male |
| Ural Bureau | Moisei Kharitonov | Моисей Харитонов | 25 April 1923 | 1923 | 250 days | Jewish | Male |

## Composition
### Members

Members of the Central Committee of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) :
| Name | Cyrillic | 11th CC | 13th CC | Birth | Death | PM | Nationality | Gender | Portrait |
| Andrey Andreyev | Андрей Андреев | Old | Reelected | 1895 | 1971 | 1914 | Russian | Male | |
| Nikolai Bukharin | Никола́й Буха́рин | Old | Reelected | 1888 | 1938 | 1906 | Russian | Male | |
| Vlas Chubar | Влас Чубар | Old | Reelected | 1891 | 1939 | 1907 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Felix Dzerzhinsky | Фе́ликс Дзержи́нский | Old | Reelected | 1877 | 1926 | 1906 | Polish | Male | |
| Mikhail Frunze | Михаил Фрунзе | Old | Reelected | 1885 | 1925 | 1904 | Romanian-Russian | Male | |
| Mikhail Kalinin | Михаил Калинин | Old | Reelected | 1875 | 1946 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
| Lev Kamenev | Лев Ка́менев | Old | Reelected | 1883 | 1936 | 1901 | Jewish-Russian | Male | |
| Moisei Kharitonov | Моисей Харитонов | New | Reelected | 1887 | 1938 | 1905 | Jewish | Male | |
| Sergey Kirov | Серге́й Ки́ров | Candidate | Reelected | 1886 | 1934 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
| Nikolay Komarov | Николай Комаров | Candidate | Reelected | 1886 | 1937 | 1909 | Russian | Male | |
| Ivan Korotkov | Иван Коротков | Old | Not | 1885 | 1949 | 1905 | Russian | Male | — |
| Nikolai Kubyak | Николай Кубяк | New | Not | 1881 | 1937 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
| Emanuel Kviring | Эммануил Квиринг | New | Reelected | 1888 | 1937 | 1912 | Volga German | Male | |
| Mikhail Lashevich | Александр Криницкий | New | Reelected | 1884 | 1937 | 1901 | Jewish | Male | |
| Vladimir Lenin | Владимир Ленин | Old | Died | 1870 | 1924 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
| Dmitry Manuilsky | Дмитро Мануїльський | Candidate | Reelected | 1883 | 1959 | 1903 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Vasily Mikhailov | Василий Михайлов | Candidate | Reelected | 1894 | 1937 | 1915 | Russian | Male | |
| Anastas Mikoyan | Анастас Микоян | Candidate | Reelected | 1895 | 1978 | 1915 | Armenian | Male | |
| Vyacheslav Molotov | Вячеслав Молотов | Old | Reelected | 1890 | 1986 | 1906 | Russian | Male | |
| Grigol Ordzhonikidze | Григо́рий Орджоники́дзе | Old | Reelected | 1886 | 1937 | 1903 | Georgian | Male | |
| Grigory Petrovsky | Григо́рій Петро́вський | Old | Reelected | 1878 | 1958 | 1898 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Georgy Pyatakov | Юрій П'ятаков | Candidate | Reelected | 1890 | 1937 | 1910 | Russian | Male | |
| Karl Radek | Карл Радек | Old | Not | 1885 | 1939 | 1903 | Jewish | Male | |
| Christian Rakovsky | Христиан Раковский | Old | Reelected | 1873 | 1941 | 1917 | Bulgarian | Male | |
| Jānis Rudzutaks | Ян Рудзутак | Old | Reelected | 1887 | 1938 | 1905 | Latvian | Male | |
| Alexei Rykov | Алексей Рыков | Old | Reelected | 1881 | 1938 | 1899 | Russian | Male | |
| Alexander Smirnov | Александр Смирнов | Old | Reelected | 1878 | 1938 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
| Grigori Sokolnikov | Григорий Сокольников | Old | Reelected | 1888 | 1938 | 1905 | Jewish | Male | |
| Joseph Stalin | Ио́сиф Ста́лин | Old | Reelected | 1878 | 1953 | 1898 | Georgian | Male | |
| Daniil Sulimov | Даниил Сулимов | Candidate | Reelected | 1890 | 1937 | 1905 | Russian | Male | |
| Mikhail Tomsky | Михаил Томский | Old | Reelected | 1880 | 1936 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
| Leon Trotsky | Лев Тро́цкий | Old | Reelected | 1879 | 1940 | 1917 | Jewish | Male | |
| Alexander Tsiurupa | Алекса́ндр Цюру́па | New | Reelected | 1870 | 1928 | 1898 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Nikolai Uglanov | Николай Угланов | New | Reelected | 1886 | 1937 | 1907 | Russian | Male | |
| Konstantin Ukhanov | Константин Уханов | New | Reelected | 1891 | 1937 | 1907 | Russian | Male | |
| Kliment Voroshilov | Климент Ворошилов | Old | Reelected | 1881 | 1969 | 1903 | Russian | Male | |
| Grigory Yevdokimov | Григорий Евдокимов | New | Reelected | 1884 | 1936 | 1903 | Russian | Male | |
| Isaak Zelensky | Исаак Зеленский | Old | Reelected | 1890 | 1937 | 1906 | Jewish | Male | |
| Pyotr Zalutsky | Петро Залуцький | New | Reelected | 1887 | 1937 | 1907 | Russian | Male | |
| Grigory Zinoviev | Григо́рий Зино́вьев | Old | Reelected | 1883 | 1936 | 1901 | Jewish | Male | |

### Candidates

Candidate Members of the Central Committee of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) :
| Name | Cyrillic | 11th CC | 13th CC | Birth | Death | PM | Nationality | Gender | Portrait |
| Aleksei Badayev | Алексей Бадаев | Candidate | Candidate | 1883 | 1951 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
| Andrei Bubnov | Андрей Бубнов | Candidate | Member | 1884 | 1938 | 1903 | Russian | Male | |
| Mikhail Chudov | Михаил Чудов | New | Candidate | 1893 | 1937 | 1913 | Russian | Male | — |
| Lazar Kaganovich | Лазарь Каганович | New | Member | 1893 | 1991 | 1911 | Jewish | Male | |
| Nikolay Kolotilov | Николай Колотилов | New | Member | 1885 | 1937 | 1903 | Russian | Male | — |
| Stanislav Kosior | Станислав Косиор | New | Member | 1889 | 1939 | 1907 | Polish | Male | |
| Dmitry Lebed | Дмитрий Лебедь | Candidate | Not | 1893 | 1937 | 1909 | Russian | Male | |
| Ivan Lepse | Иван Лепсе | Candidate | Not | 1889 | 1929 | 1904 | Latvian | Male | — |
| Alexander Miasnikian | Александр Мясников | New | Candidate | 1886 | 1925 | 1906 | Armenian | Male | |
| Ivan Morozov | Иван Морозов | New | Candidate | 1889 | 1957 | 1908 | Russian | Male | — |
| Ivan Moskvin | Иван Москвин | New | Candidate | 1890 | 1937 | 1911 | Russian | Male | |
| Nariman Narimanov | Нарима́нов Нарима́н | New | Candidate | 1870 | 1925 | 1905 | Azerbaijani | Male | |
| Mamia Orakhelashvili | Мамия Орахелашвили | New | Candidate | 1888 | 1937 | 1903 | Georgian | Male | |
| Ivan Rumyantsev | Иван Румянцев | New | Member | 1886 | 1937 | 1905 | Russian | Male | |
| Turar Ryskulov | Турар Рыскулов | New | Not | 1894 | 1938 | 1917 | Kazakh | Male | |
| Mykola Skrypnyk | Микола Скрипник | New | Candidate | 1872 | 1933 | 1898 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Mikhail Uryvayev | Михаил Урываев | New | Candidate | 1887 | 1937 | 1917 | Russian | Male | — |