The CC was not a permanent institution. It convened plenary sessions, of which nine CC plenary sessions and one joint CC–Central Control Commission (CCC) plenary sessions were held between the 13th Congress and the 14th 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
2 June 1924
1 day
2nd Plenary Session
16–20 June 1924
5 days
3rd Plenary Session
25–27 October 1924
3 days
Joint Plenary Session
17 January 1925
1 day
4th Plenary Session
17–20 January 1925
4 days
5th Plenary Session
23 April 1925
1 day
6th Plenary Session
30 April 1925
1 day
7th Plenary Session
3–10 October 1925
8 days
8th Plenary Session
12–14 November 1925
3 days
9th Plenary Session
15 December 1925
1 day
Apparatus
Individuals employed by Central Committee's bureaus, departments and newspapers made up the apparatus between the 13th Congress and the 14th 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 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)[5][6][7]
Plenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity (by clicking on the individual names on "The Central Committee elected by the XIII th Congress of the RCP (B) 31/5/1924 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. p. 272.
^Kotkin, Stephen (2014). Stalin, Volume 1: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928. New York: Penguin Press. p. 387.
^Ivkin, V.I. Государственная власть СССР. Высшие органы власти и управления и их руководители. 1923—1991 гг. Историко-биографический справочни (in Russian). Moscow. p. 605.