19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Nineteenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was held from 5 to 14 October 1952. It was the first
19th Central Committee
was elected at the congress.
Changes
- The All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) was renamed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- Stalin's request to be relieved of his duties in the party secretariat due to his age was rejected by the plenum of the Central Committee held immediately after the congress, as members were unsure about Stalin's intentions.[2][3]
- The Secretariat and Central Committee were doubled in size (to ten and 133 members, respectively). The Orgburowas abolished, and its duties were transferred to the Secretariat.
- Full members (voting) elected to the Nikolay Shvernik; Matvei Shkiryatov
- Candidate (non-voting) members elected to the Presidium:Andrei Vyshinsky; Arseni Zverev; Nikolai Ignatov; Ivan Kabanov; Alexei Kosygin; Nikolai Patolichev; Nikolai Pegov; Alexander Puzanov; Ivan Tevosian; Pavel Yudin
An unofficial "inner circle" of Stalin's closest associates included Lavrentiy Beria, Nikolai Bulganin, Kliment Voroshilov, Lazar Kaganovich, Georgy Malenkov, Mikhail Pervukhin, Maksim Saburov, and Nikita Khrushchev.
See also
- 6th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, held from 2 to 7 November 1952.
References
- ^ Speech of the 19th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 14 October 1952, by J. V. Stalin
- ^ Zhores A. Medvedev,Roj Aleksandrovič Medvedev, The Unknown Stalin, p. 40-41.
- ^ Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939 - 1953, p. 345.
External links
- Report to the Nineteenth Party Congress on the Work of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.), delivered by Malenkov
- Report on the Directives of the XIX Party Congress Relating to the Fifth Five-Year Plan for the Development of the U.S.S.R. in 1951-1955, delivered by Saburov
- On Changes in the Rules of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, delivered by Khrushchev
- Speech at the Nineteenth Party Congress by Stalin
- Rules of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union adopted by the 19th Congress
- Nineteenth Congress of the CPSU in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970–1979).
