Politburo of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The Politburo of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was in session from 1934 to 1939.

17th Politburo
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10 February 1934 – 22 March 1939
Leadership
General Secretary	Joseph Stalin
Second Secretary	Vyacheslav Molotov (Jul.– Dec. 1930) Lazar Kaganovich (1930–1934)
Politburo	12 full & 9 candidates
Secretariat	6 members
Orgburo	12 full & 2 candidates

Portraits of the 1934 Politburo

Composition

Members

Members of the Politburo of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
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Name	Cyrillic	16th POL	18th POL	Birth	Death	PM	Ethnicity	Gender	Portrait
Andrey Andreyev	Андрей Андреев	Old	Reelected	1895	1971	1914	Russian	Male
Vlas Chubar	Влас Чубар	Promoted	Relieved	1891	1939	1907	Ukrainian	Male
Lazar Kaganovich	Лазарь Каганович	Old	Reelected	1893	1991	1911	Jewish	Male
Mikhail Kalinin	Михаил Калинин	Old	Reelected	1875	1946	1898	Russian	Male
Sergey Kirov	Серге́й Ки́ров	Old	Murder	1886	1934	1904	Russian	Male
Stanislav Kosior	Станислав Косиор	Old	Arrested	1889	1939	1907	Polish	Male
Valerian Kuybyshev	Валериан Куйбышев	Old	Died	1888	1935	1904	Russian	Male
Anastas Mikoyan	Анаста́с Микоя́н	Promoted	Reelected	1895	1978	1915	Armenian	Male
Vyacheslav Molotov	Вячеслав Молотов	Old	Reelected	1890	1986	1906	Russian	Male
Grigol Ordzhonikidze	Григо́рий Орджоники́дзе	Old	Suicide	1886	1937	1903	Georgian	Male
Joseph Stalin	Ио́сиф Ста́лин	Old	Reelected	1878	1953	1898	Georgian	Male
Kliment Voroshilov	Климент Ворошилов	Old	Reelected	1881	1969	1903	Russian	Male

Candidates

Candidate Members of the Politburo of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
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Name	Cyrillic	16th POL	18th POL	Birth	Death	PM	Ethnicity	Gender	Portrait
Vlas Chubar	Влас Чубар	Candidate	Promoted	1891	1939	1907	Ukrainian	Male
Robert Eikhe	Роберт Эйхе	By-election	Arrested	1890	1940	1905	Latvian	Male
Nikita Khrushchev	Никита Хрущёв	By-election	Member	1894	1971	1918	Russian	Male
Anastas Mikoyan	Анаста́с Микоя́н	Candidate	Promoted	1895	1978	1915	Armenian	Male
Grigory Petrovsky	Григо́рій Петро́вський	Candidate	Not	1878	1958	1898	Ukrainian	Male
Pavel Postyshev	Григо́рій Петро́вський	New	Relieved	1887	1939	1904	Russian	Male
Jānis Rudzutaks	Ян Рудзутак	Demoted	Relieved	1887	1938	1905	Latvian	Male
Nikolai Yezhov	Николай Ежов	By-election	Not	1895	1940	1917	Russian- Lithuanian^[2]^[3]^[a]	Male
Andrei Zhdanov	Андрей Жданов	By-election	Member	1896	1948	1915	Russian	Male

References

1. [Narrow composition of the Central Committee of the RSDLP(b) - Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (b) - Bureau of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (b) - RCP (b) - Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) - CPSU (b) - Presidium - Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU]. Knowbysight.info. Archived from the original on 28 May 2022. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
2. "Interrogations of Nikolai Ezhov, former People's Commissar for Internal Affairs". Retrieved 4 November 2023.
3. Jansen, Mark and Petrov, Nikita (2002). Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940. Hoover Institution Press. pp. 2 and 201.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Notes

1. His father was Russian and his mother Lithuanian