The Central Control Commission (russian: Центральная Контрольная Комиссия, ''Tsentral'naya Kontrol'naya Komissiya'') was a supreme disciplinary body (since 1934 within the

Central Committee Central committee is the common designation of a standing administrative body of Communist party, communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, of both ruling and nonruling parties of former and existing socialist states. In such party org ...

) of the

Communist Party of the Soviet Union "Hymn of the Bolshevik Party" , headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow , general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first) Mikhail Gorbachev (last) , founded = , banned = , founder = Vladimir Lenin , newspaper ...

. Its members were elected at

plenary session A plenary session or plenum is a session of a conference which all members of all parties are to attend. Such a session may include a broad range of content, from keynotes to panel discussions, and is not necessarily related to a specific st ...

s of the Central Committee.

History and function

At first there was a single Control Commission, which in 1921 was divided into the Central Auditing Commission, responsible for financial control, and the Central Control Commission, responsible for controlling party discipline. The Party Control Committee oversaw the party discipline of the Party members and candidate Party members in terms of their observance of the programme and regulations of the Party, state discipline and Party ethics. It administered punishments, including expulsions from the Party. The Party Control Committee also considered the appeals of Party members punished by their local Party organizations. According to the Charter, the composition of the Central Control Commission was elected by the Party Congress; members of the Central Control Commission could not be simultaneously members of the

. The local control bodies of the RCP (b) were regional control commissions, district control commissions, district control commissions, city control commissions, etc. The activities of the party control bodies largely helped not only to reduce the number of violators of party and ethical norms in the party, but also to somewhat improve the poor quality of the management system. An important element of party control was the lack of public control over the Soviet political system from below.

Leadership

The chairman of the Party Control Committee was a powerful figure in Party politics, and usually held membership in the

Politburo A politburo () or political bureau is the executive committee for communist parties. It is present in most former and existing communist states. Names The term "politburo" in English comes from the Russian ''Politbyuro'' (), itself a contraction ...

. Notable chairmen included Andrei Andreyev,

Nikolay Shvernik Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik (russian: Никола́й Миха́йлович Шве́рник, – 24 December 1970) was a Soviet politician who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 19 March 1946 until 15 March 1 ...

, Arvid Pelshe,

Mikhail Solomentsev Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev (russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Соло́менцев; – 15 February 2008) was a high-ranking Soviet politician and statesman. Early life He was born near Yelets and graduated from the Leningrad ...

and

Boris Pugo Boris Karlovich Pugo, OAN ( lv, Boriss Pugo, russian: Борис Карлович Пуго; 19 February 1937 – 22 August 1991) was a Soviet Communist politician of Latvian origin. Biography Early life and education Pugo was born in Kalinin, ...

. In 1920-1923, as head of the CCC, People's Commissar of

Rabkrin The People's Commissariat of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection, also known as Rabkrin (; РКИ, RKI; Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate, WPI) was a governmental establishment in the Soviet Union of ministerial level (people's commissariat) re ...

(Stalin) was in charge of its activities on the national level. Chairman of the Central Control Commission: *

Valerian Kuibyshev Valerian Vladimirovich Kuybyshev (russian: Валериа́н Влади́мирович Ку́йбышев; – 25 January 1935) was a Russian revolutionary, Red Army officer, and prominent Soviet politician. Biography Early years Bo ...

(1923–1926) * Grigol Ordzhonikidze (1926–1930) * Andrey Andreyev (1930–1931) *

Jānis Rudzutaks Jānis Rudzutaks (russian: Ян Эрнестович Рудзутак, Yan Ernestovich Rudzutak; – 29 July 1938) was a Latvian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician. He was executed during the Great Purge. Early life Rudzutaks was ...

(1931–1934) Chairman of the Party Control Commission of the Central Committee: * Lazar Kaganovich (1934–1935) * Nikolai Yezhov (1935–1939) * Andrey Andreyev (1939–1952) Chairman of the Party Control Committee of the Central Committee: * Matvei Shkiryatov (1952–1954) *''Vacant'' (1954–1956) *

(1956–1966) * Arvīds Pelše (1966–1983) *

(1983–1988) *

(1988–1990) Chairman of the Central Control Commission: *Boris Pugo (1990–1991) *

Yevgeny Makhov Yevgeni, Yevgeny, Yevgenii or Yevgeniy (russian: Евгений), also transliterated as Evgeni, Evgeny, Evgenii or Evgeniy, is the Russian form of the masculine given name Eugene. People with the name include: :''Note: Occasionally, a person may b ...

(1991)

References

External links

Central Control Commission of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (Центральная контрольная комиссия ВКП(б))

Great Soviet Encyclopedia The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; ) is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Bolshaya rossiyskaya e ...

(bse.sci-lib.com).
Central Control Commission of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (Центральная контрольная комиссия ВКП(б))

(www.booksite.ru)
Commission of Partisan Control (Комиссия партийного контроля)

(www.booksite.ru) {{Structure of the CPSU

References

Bodies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1923 establishments in the Soviet Union 1991 disestablishments in the Soviet Union

History and function

Leadership

See also

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