Candidates for the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Politburo (called Presidium between 1952 and 1966) is the abbreviated name for the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Presidium 1952–1966). It was the most powerful political body in the USSR . It consisted of full members and candidates.

The candidates were members of the Politburo who were not entitled to vote. Most of them later became full members . Their number varied considerably from a maximum of 11 (1952–1953) to 4 (after 1953) or again 9 candidates (1957).

List of candidates for the Politburo

The list is likely to be complete. Daily data sometimes differ in the sources.

Lenin period 1919 to 1924

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin March 25, 1919 - June 2, 1924 (was also a full member)
Grigory Evsejewitsch Zinoviev March 25, 1919 - March 16, 1921 (was also a full member)
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin March 25, 1919 - January 1, 1926 (was also a full member)
Vyacheslav Michajlowitsch Molotov March 16, 1921 - January 1, 1926 (was also a full member)
Jan Ernestowitsch Rudsutak April 26, 1923 - July 23, 1926 (was also a full member)

Stalin period 1924 to 1953

Grigori Jakowlewitsch Sokolnikow June 2, 1924 - January 1, 1926 (was also a full member)
Michail Wassiljewitsch Frunze June 2, 1924 - October 31, 1925
Felix Edmundowitsch Dzerzhinsky June 2, 1924 - July 20, 1926
Lew Borissowitsch Kamenew January 1, 1926 - October 23, 1926 (was also a full member)
Grigory Ivanovich Petrowski January 1, 1926 - March 22, 1939
Nikolai Alexandrovich Uglanov January 1, 1926 - April 29, 1929
Andrei Andrejewitsch Andrejew July 23, 1926 - December 31, 1930 (was also a full member)
Lasar Moissejewitsch Kaganowitsch July 23, 1926 - July 13, 1930 (was also a full member)
Sergei Mironowitsch Kirow July 23, 1926 - July 13, 1930 (was also a full member)
Anastas Iwanowitsch Mikojan July 23, 1926 - February 1, 1935 (was also a full member)
Grigori Konstantinowitsch Ordzhonikidze July 23, 1926 - November 3, 1926 (was also a full member)
Vlas Jakowlewitsch Tschubar November 3, 1926 - October 1, 1935 (was also a full member)
Stanislaw Wikentjewitsch Kossior December 19, 1927 - July 13, 1930 (was also a full member)
Karl Janowitsch Baumann April 29, 1929 - July 13, 1930
Sergei Ivanovich Syrzow June 21, 1929 - December 1, 1930
Pavel Petrovich Postyshev February 10, 1934 - January 18, 1938 (†)
Jan Ernestowitsch Rudsutak (2nd time) February 10, 1934 - May 26, 1937 (was also a full member)
Andrei Alexandrowitsch Schdanow February 1, 1935 - March 22, 1939 (was also a full member)
Robert Indrikowitsch Eiche February 1, 1935 - April 29, 1938 († 1940)
Nikolai Iwanowitsch Jeschow October 12, 1937 - March 22, 1939 (†)
Nikita Sergejewitsch Khrushchev January 18, 1938 - March 22, 1939 (was also a full member)
Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria March 22, 1939 - March 19, 1946 (was also a full member)
Nikolai Michailowitsch Schwernik (1st time) March 22, 1939 - October 16, 1952 (was also a full member)
Georgi Maximilianowitsch Malenkow February 21, 1941 - March 19, 1946 (was also a full member)
Nikolai Alexejewitsch Voznesensky February 21, 1941 - February 28, 1947 (was also a full member)
Alexander Sergeyevich Shcherbakov February 21, 1941 - May 10, 1945
Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin ! 8. March 1946 - February 18, 1948 (was also a full member)
Alexei Nikolajewitsch Kosygin (1st time) March 18, 1946 - September 4, 1948 (was also a full member)
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (1st time) October 16, 1952 - March 5, 1953 (was also a full member)
Arseni Grigoryevitch Swerev October 16, 1952 - March 5, 1953
Ivan Grigoryevitch Kabanov October 16, 1952 - March 5, 1953
Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (2nd time) October 16, 1952 - March 5, 1953 (was also a full member)
Andrei Januaryevich Wyschinski October 16, 1952 - March 5, 1953
Nikolai Semyonovich Patolichev October 16, 1952 - March 5, 1953
Nikolai Michailowitsch Pegow October 16, 1952 - March 5, 1953
Alexander Mikhailovich Pusanov October 16, 1952 - March 5, 1953
Ivan Fyodorovich Tevosyan October 16, 1952 - March 5, 1953
Pavel Fyodorowitsch Yudin October 16, 1952 - March 5, 1953
Nikolai Grigoryevich Ignatov (1st time) October 16, 1952 - March 5, 1953 (was also a full member)

Khrushchev period 1953 to 1964

Panteleimon Kondratjewitsch Ponomarenko March 15, 1953 - February 27, 1956 (was also a full member)
Leonid Georgievich Melnikow March 15, 1953 - June 6, 1953 (was also a full member)
Mir Jafar Abbasovich Bagirov March 5, 1953 - July 17, 1953
Alexei Illarionowitsch Kiritschenko June 6, 1953 - July 12, 1955 (was also a full member)
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (2nd time) February 27, 1956 - June 29, 1957 (was also a full member)
Dmitri Trofimowitsch Shepilov February 27, 1956 - June 29, 1957
Ekaterina Alexejewna Furzewa February 27, 1956 - June 29, 1957 (was also a full member)
Nuritdin Akramowitsch Muchitdinow February 27, 1956 - December 19, 1957 (was also a full member)
Georgi Konstantinowitsch Schukow February 27, 1956 - June 29, 1957 (was also a full member)
Frol Romanowitsch Koslow February 14, 1957 - June 29, 1957 (was also a full member)
Mikhail Georgievich Perwuchin June 27, 1957 - October 31, 1961 (was also a full member)
Kirill Trofimowitsch Masurow June 27, 1957 - March 26, 1965 (was also a full member)
Andrei Pawlowitsch Kirilenko June 27, 1957 - October 31, 1961 (was also a full member)
Alexei Nikolajewitsch Kosygin (3rd time) June 27, 1957 - May 4, 1960 (was also a full member)
Pyotr Nikolayevich Pospelov June 27, 1957 - October 31, 1961
Vasily Pavlovich Mshavanadze June 27, 1957 - December 18, 1972
Demjan Sergejewitsch Korottschenko June 27, 1957 - October 31, 1961
Jan Eduardowitsch Kalnbersin June 27, 1957 - October 31, 1961
Nikolai Wiktorowitsch Podgorny June 18, 1958 - May 4, 1960 (was also a full member)
Dmitri Stepanowitsch Polyansky June 18, 1958 - May 4, 1960 (was also a full member)
Gennady Ivanovich Voronov January 18, 1961 - October 31, 1961 (was also a full member)
Viktor Wassiljewitsch Grischin January 18, 1961 - April 9, 1971 (was also a full member)
Sharaf Raschidowitsch Raschidow (October 31, 1961 - October 31, 1983)
Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitzky (1st time) October 31, 1961 - December 13, 1963 (was also a full member)
Leonid Nikolayevich Yefremov (November 23, 1962 - April 8, 1966)
Pyotr Efimowitsch Schelest December 13, 1963 - November 16, 1964 (was also a full member)

Brezhnev period 1964 to 1982

Pyotr Nilowitsch Demitschew November 16, 1964 - September 30, 1988
Dmitri Fjodorowitsch Ustinow March 26, 1965 - March 4, 1976 (was also a full member)
Wladimir Wassiljewitsch Schcherbitzki (2nd time) December 6, 1965 - April 9, 1971 (was also a full member)
Pyotr Mironovich Mascherow April 8, 1966 - October 4, 1980
Dinmuhamed Akhmedovich Kunayev April 8, 1966 - April 9, 1971 (was also a full member)
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov June 21, 1967 - April 27, 1973 (was also a full member)
Mikhail Sergejewitsch Solomenzew November 23, 1971 - December 26, 1983 (was also a full member)
Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev May 19, 1972 - March 6, 1986
Grigori Wassiljewitsch Romanow April 27, 1973 - March 5, 1976 (was also a full member)
Geidar Alijewitsch Älijew around 1970 - 1982 (was also a full member)
Konstantin Ustinowitsch Tschernenko October 3, 1977 - November 27, 1978 (was also a full member)
Wassili Wassiljewitsch Kuznetsov October 3, 1977 - March 6, 1986
Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Tichonow November 27, 1978 - November 27, 1979 (was also a full member)
Eduard Amwrossijewitsch Shevardnadze November 27, 1978 - July 1, 1985 (was also a full member)
Mikhail Sergejewitsch Gorbachev November 27, 1979 - October 21, 1980 (was also a full member)

Andropov and Chernenko periods 1982 to 1985

Vladimir Ivanovich Dolgich May 24, 1982 - September 30, 1988
Vitaly Ivanovich Worotnikow June 15, 1983 - December 26, 1983 (was also a full member)
Viktor Michailowitsch Tschebrikow December 26, 1984 - April 23, 1985 (was also a full member)
Yefrem Yevseevich Sokolov April 23, 1985 - June 26, 1987

Gorbachev period 1985 to 1991

Nikolai Vladimirovich Talysin October 15, 1986 - September 20, 1989
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin February 18, 1986 - February 18, 1988
Nikolai Nikitowitsch Sljunkow March 6, 1986 - June 26, 1987 (was also a full member)
Alexander Nikolajewitsch Jakowlew January 20, 1987 - June 26, 1987 (was also a full member)
Dmitri Timofejewitsch Jasow June 26, 1987 - July 14, 1990
Yuri Dmitrijewitsch Masljukow February 18, 1988 - September 20, 1989 (was also a full member)
Georgi Petrovich Razumovsky February 18, 1988 - July 14, 1990
Alexandra Pavlovna Biryukova September 30, 1988 - July 14, 1990
Alexander Vladimirovich Vlasov September 30, 1988 - July 14, 1990
Anatoly Ivanovich Lukyanov September 30, 1988 - July 14, 1990
Yevgeny Maximovich Primakov September 20, 1989 - July 14, 1990
Boris Karlowitsch Pugo September 20, 1989 - July 14, 1990

literature

Georg von Rauch : History of Bolshevik Russia . ( Books of Knowledge ). Fischer library, Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg 1963
Leonard Schapiro: The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1962
Merle Fainsod : How Russia is governed . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1965
Michel Tatu: Power and Powerlessness in the Kremlin . Ullstein-Verlag, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Vienna 1967
Mikhail Gorbachev : Memories . Siedler-Verlag, Berlin 1995