Politburo of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) explained

Number:	13
Start:	2 June 1924
End:	1 January 1926
Previous:	12th Politburo
Next:	14th Politburo

The Politburo of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was in session from 2 June 1924 to 1 January 1926.^[1]

Composition

Members

Name! scope="col" class="unsortable"
Cyrillic	12th POL	14th POL				Ethnicity	Gender	Portrait
	Никола́й Буха́рин	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1888	1938	1906	Russian	Male
	Лев Ка́менев	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1883	1936	1901	Jewish-Russian^[2] ^[3]	Male
	Алексей Рыков	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1881	1938	1898	Russian	Male
	Ио́сиф Ста́лин	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1878	1953	1898	Georgian	Male
	Михаил Томский	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1880	1936	1904	Russian	Male
	Лев Тро́цкий	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1879	1940	1917	Jewish	Male
	Григо́рий Зино́вьев	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1883	1936	1901	Jewish	Male

Candidates

Name! scope="col" class="unsortable"
Cyrillic	12th POL	14th POL				Ethnicity	Gender	Portrait
	Фе́ликс Дзержи́нский	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1877	1926	1906	Polish	Male
	Михаил Фрунзе	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightYellow		1885	1925	1904	Romanian-Russian^[4] ^[5]	Male
	Михаил Калинин	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1875	1946	1898	Russian	Male
	Вячеслав Молотов	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1890	1986	1906	Russian	Male
	Ян Рудзутак	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1887	1938	1906	Latvian	Male
	Григорий Сокольников	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1888	1938	1905	Jewish	Male

Notes and References

TAKIGUCHI. Junya. 2012. Projecting Bolshevik Unity, Ritualizing Party Debate: The Thirteenth Party Congress, 1924. Acta Slavica Iaponica. 31. 55‒76.
Book: Service, Robert . Stalin: A Biography . Harvard University Press . 2005 . 103.
Book: Lindemann, Albert S. . Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews . Cambridge University Press . 1997 . 430.
Book: Service, Robert . Lenin, a Political Life: The Iron Ring . Indiana University Press . 1995 . 194.
Book: Riga, Liliana . The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire . Cambridge University Press . 303.