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Encyclopedia > Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Congress of the CPSU was the gathering of the delegates of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and its predecessors. During the history, the name was changed according to the then current name of the party. The frequency of party congresses also varied with the meetings being annual events in the 1920s while no Congress was held at all between 1939 to 1952. After the death of Joseph Stalin the Congresses were held every five years. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: Коммунисти́ческая Па́ртия Сове́тского Сою́за = КПСС) was the name used by the successors of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party from 1952 to 1991, but the wording Communist Party was present in the partys name since 1918 when the Bolsheviks became the All... Stalin redirects here. ...


The First Congress of RSDLP, was held in 1898, Minsk, Belarus of Imperial Russia. The Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, or RSDLP (Росси́йская Социа́л-Демократи́ческая Рабо́чая Па́ртия = РСДРП), also known as the Russian Social-Democratic Workers Party and the Russian Social-Democratic Party, was a revolutionary socialist Russian political party formed in 1898 in Minsk to unite the various revolutionary organizations into one party. ... 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Location Location of Minsk, shown within the Minsk Voblast Government Belarus District City Belarus Minsk Voblast Minsk City City 980 (Polatsk) Mayor Mikhail Pavlov Geographical characteristics Area  - City 256 km² Population  - City (2006) 1,780,000 Coordinates Elevation 280. ... Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start...


The Second Congress, 1903, Belgium, resulted into the party's split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions which eventually became parties in their own right. 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... Leaders of the Bolshevik Party and the Communist International, a painting by Malcolm McAllister on the Pathfinder Mural in New York City and on the cover of the book Lenin’s Final Fight published by Pathfinder. ... Leaders of the Menshevik Party at Norra Bantorget in Stockholm, Sweden, May 1917. ...


Theoretically, the Congress was the supreme ruling body of the entire Party. Between the congresses the party was ruled by the Central Committee, abbreviated as ЦК, "Tseka". The Central Committee, abbreviated in Russian as ЦК, Tseka, was the highest body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). ...


In the course of time it had eventually become an organ of rubberstamping, propaganda, and dissemination of the decisions of the Politburo, known from 1952 to 1966 as the Presidium. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Politburo (in Russian: Политбюро), known as the Presidium from 1952 to 1966, functioned as the central policymaking and governing body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ...


See also: Organization of the Communist Party of the USSR General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Became synonymous with leader of the party under Stalin. ...


List of Party Congresses

Number Dates Place Comments
1 1-3 [14-16] Mar 1898 Minsk, Russian Empire RDSLP founding conference
2 17 [30] Jul - 10 [23] Aug 1903 Brussels, Belgium and London, UK RDSLP splits into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions. First Program of Bolshevik Party (1st Party Program).
3 12-27 April [25 Apr - 10 May] 1905 London, UK Bolsheviks only
4 ("Unification") 10-25 April [23 Apr - 8 May] 1906 Stockholm, Sweden Bolsheviks and Mensheviks re-unite in the same party, but keep their factions
5 ("London") 30 April - 19 May [13 May - 1 June] 1907 London, UK Bolsheviks and Mensheviks together
6 26 July - 3 August [8-16 August] 1917 Petrograd, Russian Republic Held semi-legally in between revolutions, Bolsheviks merge with the Mezhraiontsy, final break with the Mensheviks
7 (Extraordinary) 6-8 March 1918 Moscow, Russian SFSR Party becomes Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
8 18-23 March 1919 Moscow, Russian SFSR New (2nd) Party Program adopted by Congress.
9 29 March - 5 April 1920 Moscow, Russian SFSR
10 8-16 March 1921 Moscow, Russian SFSR Internal party factions banned in a secret resolution
11 27 March - 2 April 1922 Moscow, Russian SFSR
12 17-25 April 1923 Moscow, USSR
13 23-31 May 1924 Moscow, USSR First Congress since Lenin's death
14 18-31 December 1925 Moscow, USSR Party becomes All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
15 2-19 December 1927 Moscow, USSR Stalin's power consolidated, Trotskyists expelled
16 26 June - 13 July 1930 Moscow, USSR
17 26 January - 10 February 1934 Moscow, USSR Vote for Politburo shows Kirov most popular member, Stalin least popular. Hailed as the "Congress of Victors."
18 10-21 March 1939 Moscow, USSR First congress after Great Purge.
19 5-14 October 1952 Moscow, USSR Party becomes Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Stalin's last Congress
20 14-25 February 1956 Moscow, USSR Khrushchev's Secret Speech denouncing Stalin
21 (Extraordinary) 27 January - 5 February 1959 Moscow, USSR "Extraordinary" Congress timed so that Khrushchev could try to consolidate his power over rivals.
22 17-31 October 1961 Moscow, USSR New (3rd) Party Program adopted.
23 29 March - 8 April 1966 Moscow, USSR Brezhnev's first Congress as General Secretary.
24 30 March - 9 April 1971 Moscow, USSR
25 24 February - 5 March 1976 Moscow, USSR
26 23 February - 3 March 1981 Moscow, USSR Brezhnev's last congress.
27 25 February - 6 March 1986 Moscow, USSR Gorbachev presides. Revised (4th) Party Program. Glasnost and perestroika not yet announced.
28 2-13 July 1990 Moscow, USSR Party Statute formalizes the end to monopoly on power


 
 

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