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He was a member of the Politburo ( 1924 – 1929 ) and Central Committee ( 1917 – 1937 ), chairman of the Communist International ( Comintern, 1926 – 1929 ), and the editor in chief of Pravda ( 1918 – 1929 ), the journal Bolshevik ( 1924 – 1929 ), Izvestia ( 1934 – 1936 ), and the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
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was and Politburo
In those states where it constituted the state power, the Central Committee made decisions for the party between congresses, and usually was responsible for electing the Politburo.
However at the 8th Party Congress held in 1919, the Political Bureau ( Politburo ) was established to respond to questions needing immediate responses.
With Stalin's takeover, the role of the Central Committee was eclipsed by the Politburo, which consisted of a small clique of loyal Stalinists.
By Stalin's death in 1953, the Central Committee had become largely a symbolic organ, which was responsible to the Politburo, and not the other way around.
The Central Committee was an important organ in the beginning of Brezhnev's rule, but lost effective power to the Politburo.
From then on, until the ascension of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Central Committee played a minor role in the running of the party and state – the Politburo was the highest political organ in the Soviet Union.
The declaration stated that the Politburo, Orgburo and the Secretariat was taking complete control over the party, and it was these bodies which elected the delegates to the Party Congresses – in effect making the executive branch, the Party Congress, a tool of the Soviet leadership.
Trotsky was the only one in the Politburo who supported Gosplan in its feud with the Commissariat for Finance.
In April 1926 Zinoviev was removed from the Politburo and in December, Trotsky lost his membership too.
The Politburo did not convene once between 1950, when Nikolai Voznesensky was killed, and 1953.
In 1952, at the 19th Party Congress ( 5 – 14 October 1952 ) the Politburo was abolished and replaced by the Presidium.
The dispute between Ordzhonikidze and Molotov, who represented the Soviet leadership, was settled by the establishment of a Congress Commission, which consisted of Stalin, Molotov, Ordzhonikidze, other Politburo members and certain economic experts.
The powers of the Secretariat decreased during this period, and only one member of the Secretariat, Nikita Khrushchev, was a member of the Presidium ( the Politburo ).
The speaker at the Central Committee meeting which elected the Council of Ministers ( the Government ) and the Politburo was never listed during the Brezhnev era.
At the Central Committee meeting of 22 November 1982, Kirilenko lost his membership in the Politburo ( after a decision within the Politburo itself ), and Nikolai Ryzhkov, the Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee, was elected to the Secretariat.
At the 14 – 15 June 1983 Central Committee meeting, Vitaly Vorotnikov was elected as a candidate member of the Politburo, Grigory Romanov was elected to the Secretariat and five members of the Central Committee were given full membership.
Vorotnikov and Mikhail Solomentsev were given full membership in the Politburo, Chebrikov was elected a candidate member of the Politburo and Ligachev became a member of the Secretariat.
Chernenko was elected as a compromise candidate by the Politburo ; the Central Committee could never have accepted another candidate, considering that the majority of the Central Committee members were old Brezhnev appointees.
The Politburo was elected by and reported to the Central Committee.
In 1919 – 1952 the Orgburo was also elected in the same manner as the Politburo and the Secretariat by the plenums of the Central Committee.
However, as the membership in the Central Committee steadily increased, its role was eclipsed by the Politburo.
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