Nineteenth Congress of the CPSU (1952)
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The Nineteenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union met in Moscow from 5 to 14 October 1952, the first party congress after a 13-year hiatus since the 18th Congress in 1939 and the last held under Stalin. At this congress the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was renamed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the Politburo and Orgburo were abolished, and a larger Presidium of the Central Committee was created with 25 full members and 11 candidates. An unofficial inner 'Bureau of the Presidium' of nine men concentrated real decision-making among Stalin's closest associates, a structure dismantled immediately after his death.
Sources
- Wikipedia (RU) Russian Wikipedia: dates, agenda, renaming of VKP(b) to KPSS, replacement of Politburo with Presidium, composition of the 25-member Presidium and its inner Bureau.
- Wikipedia (EN) English Wikipedia: first congress since 1939, last under Stalin, Politburo→Presidium expansion, Stalin's last public speech.
- archontology.org Archontology: institutional analysis of the Presidium reform, the 13-year gap between congresses, and the rapid reversal of the 19th Congress changes after Stalin's death in March 1953.
- marxistleninists.org Congress documents and materials: pre-congress announcements, agenda, delegate norms, and the congress as the 'last Stalinist party congress.'