Plenum of the Central Committee
중앙위원회 전원회의
The plenary session of the CPSU Central Committee, convened between Party Congresses as the highest collective decision-making forum of the party. It brought together all full and candidate members, met at least once every six months under party statute, and held the formal authority to elect the Politburo (Presidium after 1952), the Secretariat, and the General Secretary, and to resolve major policy and personnel questions.
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- Wikipedia (RU) Russian Wikipedia: full description of the plenum as a plenary session of CC members and candidate members, naming history from September 1919, statutory minimum of one per half-year, election of General Secretary/Politburo/Secretariat at the first post-congress plenum, and enumeration of historically significant plenums including June 1957 (Anti-Party Group)
- britannica.com Encyclopaedia Britannica: describes Central Committee as highest party organ between congresses; notes it convened twice a year, functioned as a quasi-parliamentary body, and that rival party leaders had to win control of its membership, which proved decisive in the leadership crises of 1957 and 1964
- Wikipedia (EN) English Wikipedia: confirms the Central Committee's statutory role, composition (full + candidate members), and its pivotal role in the 1957 crisis when Khrushchev appealed from the Presidium to the Central Committee plenum to defeat the Anti-Party Group
- istmat.org istmat.org: stenographic record of the July 1953 Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee, opened by Khrushchev on behalf of the Presidium, illustrating the plenum's function as a formal venue for major party decisions (Beria affair)