At the 19th Congress of the CPSU Dmitry Chesnokov became a member of the Politburo (Presidium) of the CPSU Central Committee. Joseph Stalin at the end of his life predicted him to be one of the main ideologues of the Communist Party. However, the day after Stalin's death, Chesnokov was removed on March 5, 1953 from the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee and eventually from the Central Committee in 1956.