congress of the cpsu

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 First Congress of RSDLP, was held in 1898, Minsk, Belarus of Imperial Russia. The Second Congress, 1903, Belgium, resulted into the party's split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions which eventually became parties in their own right. 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". 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. See also: Organization of the Communist Party of the USSR

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.
3	12-27 Apr Apr - 10 May 1905	London, UK
4	10-25 Apr Apr - 8 May 1906	Stockholm, Sweden
5	30 Apr - 19 May May - 1 Jun 1907	London, UK	Failed attempt by Bolsheviks and Mensheviks to reconcile
6	26 Jul - 3 Aug Aug 1917	Moscow, Russia	Held between revolutions
7	6-8 Mar 1918	Moscow, Russian SFSR	Party becomes All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
8	18-23 Mar 1919	Moscow, Russian SFSR
9	29 Mar - 5 Apr 1920	Moscow, Russian SFSR
10	8-16 Mar 1921	Moscow, Russian SFSR	Internal party factions banned
11	27 Mar - 2 Apr 1922	Moscow, Russian SFSR
12	17-25 Apr 1923	Moscow, USSR
13	23-31 May 1924	Moscow, USSR	First Congress since Lenin's death
14	18-31 Dec 1925	Moscow, USSR	Party becomes All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
15	2-19 Dec 1927	Moscow, USSR	Stalin's power consolidated
16	26 Jun - 13 Jul 1930	Moscow, USSR
17	26 Jan - 10 Feb 1934	Moscow, USSR	Party becomes Communist Party of Soviet Union (Bolshevik)- vote for Politburo shows Kirov most popular member, Stalin least popular.
18	10-21 Mar 1939	Moscow, USSR	First congress after Great Purge.
19	5-14 Oct 1952	Moscow, USSR	Party becomes Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Stalin's last Congress
20	14-25 Feb 1956	Moscow, USSR	Khrushchev's Secret Speech denouncing Stalin
21	27 Jan - 5 Feb 1959	Moscow, USSR
22	17-31 Oct 1961	Moscow, USSR
23	29 Mar - 8 Apr 1966	Moscow, USSR
24	30 Mar - 9 Apr 1971	Moscow, USSR
25	24 Feb - 5 Mar 1976	Moscow, USSR
26	23 Feb - 3 Mar 1981	Moscow, USSR
27	25 Feb - 6 Mar 1986	Moscow, USSR
28	2-13 Jul 1990	Moscow, USSR	Party passes resolution for end to monopoly on power

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