Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the gathering of the delegates of the Communist Party

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the world...

and its predecessors. According the party statute, it was the supreme ruling body of the entire Communist Party.

Between the congresses the party was ruled by the Central Committee

Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , abbreviated in Russian as ЦК, "Tse-ka", earlier was also called as the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party ...

. Over the course of the party's history, the name was changed in accordance with the current name of the party at the time. The frequency of party congresses 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

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...

, the congresses were held every five years.

List of party congresses

#	Congress			Location (city–country)	Party leader
#	Began	Ended	Length
1	1 March 1898	3 March 1898	2 days	Minsk, Russian Empire	—
2	17 July 1903	10 August 1903	24 days	Brussels, Belgium, and London, UK	Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a...
3 3rd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party The 3rd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was held during 12-27 April [25 Apr - 10 May ] 1905 in London, UK. It was the congress of the Bolsheviks only with a handful of Mensheviks. The meeting was so secretive we do not know the name of the hall they used.Besides the routine...	12 April 1905	27 April 1905	15 days	London, UK
4 4th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party The Fourth Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party that took place in Stockholm, Sweden, from April 10-25 , 1906....	10 April 1906	25 April 1906	15 days	Stockholm, Sweden
5 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party The 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was held in London between May 13 and June 1, 1907. The congress was the largest in attendance of the congresses of the unified RSDLP. Thirty-five session of the congress were held in the Brotherhood Church in Hackney, during which...	30 April 1907	19 May 1907	19 days	London, UK
6 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolsheviks) The 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was held during 26 July - 3 August in Petrograd, Russia....	26 July 1917	3 August 1917	8 days	Petrograd, Russian Republic
7	6 March 1918	8 March 1918	2 days	Moscow, RSFSR
8 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) The 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party was held in Moscow 18 - 23 March, 1919.The Congress was attended by 301 voting delegates who represented 313,766 Party members...	18 March 1919	23 March 1919	5 days	Moscow, RSFSR
9 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) The 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party took place from 29 March 1920 till 5 April 1920. The Congress opened in the Bolshoi Theatre with an introductory speech by Lenin. The following meetings of the Congress took place in one of the buildings of the Kremlin...	29 March 1920	5 April 1920	7 days	Moscow, RSFSR
10	8 March 1921	16 March 1921	8 days	Moscow, RSFSR
11	27 March 1922	2 April 1922	6 days	Moscow, RSFSR
12	17 April 1923	25 April 1923	8 days	Moscow, USSR
13	23 May 1924	31 May 1924	8 days	Moscow, USSR	Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...
14	18 December 1925	31 December 1925	13 days	Moscow, USSR
15	2 December 1927	19 December 1927	17 days	Moscow, USSR
16	26 June 1930	13 July 1930	17 days	Moscow, USSR
17	26 January 1934	10 February 1934	15 days	Moscow, USSR
18	10 March 1939	21 March 1939	11 days	Moscow, USSR
19	5 October 1952	14 October 1952	9 days	Moscow, USSR
20	14 February 1956	25 February 1956	11 days	Moscow, USSR	Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964...
21 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union The 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union took place in Moscow, USSR 27 January - 5 February 1959. It was a mid-term or "Extraordinary" Congress, timed so that Khrushchev could try to consolidate his power over rivals after the attempted coup of the so-called "Anti-Party Group"...	27 January 1959	5 February 1959	9 days	Moscow, USSR
22	17 October 1961	31 October 1961	14 days	Moscow, USSR
23 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union The 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union took place in Moscow, RSFSR between 29 March and 8 April 1966. It was the first Congress during Leonid Brezhnev's leadership of the Party and state...	29 March 1966	8 April 1966	10 days	Moscow, USSR	Leonid Brezhnev Leonid Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev – 10 November 1982) was the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , presiding over the country from 1964 until his death in 1982. His eighteen-year term as General Secretary was second only to that of Joseph Stalin in...
24	30 March 1971	9 April 1971	10 days	Moscow, USSR
25	24 February 1976	5 March 1976	9 days	Moscow, USSR
26	23 February 1981	3 March 1981	8 days	Moscow, USSR
27 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 27th Congress of the CPSU was held in Moscow. It was held after the deaths of Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko. Mikhail Gorbachev was the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU...	25 February 1986	6 March 1986	9 days	Moscow, USSR	Mikhail Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the USSR, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991...
28	2 July 1990	13 July 1990	11 days	Moscow, USSR

List of party congresses

See also