The Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was in session from 1939 until 1952, and was replenished in 1941. It elected, at its 1st Plenary Session, the Politburo, the Secretariat, the Orgburo and the Party Control Commission.

Plenums

The CC was not a permanent institution. The CC was convened for 10 plenary sessions between the 18th Congress and the 19th Congress. When the CC was not in session, decision-making powers were transferred to inner bodies of the CC itself; the Politburo, Secretariat and Orgburo (none of these bodies were permanent either, but convened to decide on crucial matters).[1]

Plenary sessions of the Central Committee
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Plenum Date Length
1st Plenary Session 22 March 1939 1 day
2nd Plenary Session 21–24, 27 July 1939 5 days
3rd Plenary Session 26–28 March 1940 4 days
4th Plenary Session 29–31 July 1940 3 days
5th Plenary Session 21 February 1941 1 day
6th Plenary Session 5 May 1941 1 day
7th Plenary Session 27 January 1944 1 day
8th Plenary Session 11, 14, 18 March 1946 3 days
9th Plenary Session 21–22, 24, 26 February 1947 4 days
10th Plenary Session 15 August 1952 1 day

Composition

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