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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
| Number | Dates | Place | Comments
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 [25 Apr - 10 May] 1905 | London, UK | ||
| 4 | 10-25 Apr [23 Apr - 8 May] 1906 | Stockholm, Sweden | ||
| 5 | 30 Apr - 19 May [13 May - 1 Jun] 1907 | London, UK | Failed attempt by Bolsheviks and Mensheviks to reconcile | |
| 6 | 26 Jul - 3 Aug [8-16 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 PolitburoPolitburo is short for Political Bureau''. The term originates either from the Russian Politicheskoe Byuro which contracts to Politbyuro or from the German Politburo''. A Politburo is the executive organization for a number of political parties, most nota shows KirovSergei Mironovich Kirov ( March 15 O. March 27 N. 1886 December 1, 1934) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet communist. He was born Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov , later assuming the name Kirov as an alias. His 1934 assassination marked the beginning o most popular member, Stalin least popular. | |
| 18 | 10-21 Mar 1939 | Moscow, USSR | First congress after Great PurgeThe Great Purge is the name given to the campaigns of repression in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s which included a purge of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The purge was motivated by the desire on the part of the leadership to remove dis. | |
| 19 | 5-14 Oct 1952 | Moscow, USSR | Party becomes Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Stalin's last Congress | |
| 20The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was held during February 14— February 26 1956. It is known especially for Nikita Khrushchev's Secret Speech, which denounced recently deceased Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. During the morning c | 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 |