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).[1]
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.[2] The bureaus and departments were supervised by the Secretariat, and each secretary (member of the Secretariat) supervised a specific department.[3] The leaders of departments were officially referred to as Heads, while the titles of bureau leaders varied between chairman, first secretary and secretary.[4]
Central Committee Apparatus of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)[5][6][7]
Plenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity (by clicking on the individual names on "The Central Committee of the XIIth Congress of the RCP (B) 25/4/1923 members" reference), the Central Committee full- and candidate membership, Politburo membership, Secretariat membership and Orgburo membership were taken from these sources:
^Parrish, Michael (1992). Soviet Security and Intelligence Organizations 1917-1990: A Biographical Dictionary and Review of Literature in English. Greenwood Press. pp. 219–220.
^ abLindemann, Albert S. (1997). Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews. Cambridge University Press. p. 453.
^ abRiga, Liliana (2012). The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire. Cambridge University Press. pp. 60, 70 and 303.
^ ab"Kaganovich, Lazar Moiseyevich". Jewish Virtual Library. The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. Retrieved 8 November 2023.