Central Control Commission of the CPSU

The Central Control Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) ( Russian: Центральная контрольная комиссия КПСС ; Transcription: Zentralnaja Kontrolnaja Komissija KPSS: Abbreviation: ЦКК; transcription from 1990 to 1991 was the highest body of control; ZKK; the hierarchy of the CPSU.

The Central Control Commission of the CPSU watched over the discipline and morality of the party's members and candidates and that they followed the party's program and statute. The Central Control Commission was able to impose penalties, including expulsion from the party. The Control Commission also discussed petitions from party members who had been disciplined by their local party organizations.

The CPSU's predecessor party from 1918 was the Communist Party of Russia (Russian РКП (б); transcription: RKP (b)), which was renamed the Communist All-Union Party (Russian: VКП (б); transcription: WKP (b)) in 1925 and in 1952 in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian КПСС; transcription: KPSS). Accordingly, the control commission was formerly known as the Central Control Commission of the Communist All-Union Party .

From 1920 to 1921 there was only one control commission , which in 1921 was divided into the Central Revision Commission (Russian Центральная ревизионная комиссия КПСС; abbreviation: ЦРК; transcription: Zentralnaja rewisionnaja komissija; ZRK) and in the Central Control Commission .

While the Central Audit Commission was responsible for financial control, the Central Control Commission was responsible for controlling party discipline . According to the statute of the CPSU, the members of the Central Revision Commission were elected by the party congress. They could not be members of the Central Committee of the CPSU ( CPSU Central Committee ) at the same time .

Until 1934, a respected member of the Politburo was elected chairman of the Central Control Commission for two to three years at a time, as they were not allowed to be members of the Central Committee of the CPSU at the same time. The chairmanship of the Central Control Commission meant a great position of power in the party. Usually members of the Politburo presided.

1934-1952 it upheld the Central Control Commission , the Party Control Commission (Russian Комиссия партийного контроля при ЦК ВКП (б); abbreviation:. КПК; Transcription: KPK) and from 1952 to 1990, the Committee for Party Control of the Central Committee of the CPSU (Russian Комитет партийного. контроля при ЦК КПСС).

In contrast to the previously existing Central Control Commission , the members were no longer elected at the party congress, but only confirmed by the Central Committee of the CPSU. In fact, they were determined by the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

From 1934 to 1946 the chairman of the party control commission was secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and a member of the organizational office of the CPSU Central Committee (Russian Оргбюро ЦК ВКП (б)).

At the 28th party congress of the CPSU in 1990, the Committee for Party Control at the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Central Revision Commission were again merged into one body, the Central Control Commission .

Chair of the Central Control Commission

From 1920 to 1923 there was no function of chairman of the Central Control Commission, as the activities of the Control Commission at the Russian level were headed by Josef Stalin , the People's Commissar for the Workers 'and Peasants' Inspection ( РКИ or Rabkrin ).

Chair of the Central Control Commission of the RKP (b) and WKP (b):

Valerian Kuibyshev (1923–1926)
Grigory Ordzhonikidze (1926–1930)
Andrei Andrejew (1930–1931)
Jan Rudsutak (1931–1934)

Chairwoman of the Commission for Party Control at the Central Committee of the WKP (b):

Lasar Kaganowitsch (1934–1935)
Nikolai Jeschow (1935–1939)
Andrei Andrejew (1939–1952)

Chair of the Committee for Party Control at the Central Committee of the CPSU:

Matwei Shkirjatow (Russian Матвей Фёдорович Шкирятов: * 1883; † 1954) (1952–1954)
Post not filled (1954–1956)
Nikolai Schwernik (1956–1966)
Arwid Pelsche (1966–1983)
Mikhail Solomenzew (1983–1988)
Boris Pugo (1988–1990)

Chair of the Central Control Commission of the CPSU:

Boris Pugo (1990-1991)
Evgeny Machow (Russian Евгений Николаевич Махов) (1991)