Orgburo
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The Organizational Bureau (Orgburo) of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union existed from 1919 to 1952, until the 19th Congress, when the Orgburo was abolished and its functions were transferred to the enlarged Secretariat.
[edit] Role of Orgburo
The second sub-committee of the Central Committee in the Communist Party hierarchy was the Orgburo, which was created to make important decisions about organizational work in the USSR. The Orgburo oversaw the work of local party committees and had the power to select and place Communist members in the positions that they saw fit. The functions of the Orgburo and the Politburo were often interconnected, but the Politburo was ultimately the final decision-maker. While the Politburo was mostly concerned with strategic planning and monitoring of the people and status of the USSR, the Orgburo helped improve the nation by proper distribution of party forces.
[edit] Election and Power of Officials
The Orgburo was elected in the same manner as the Politburo and the Secretariat by the plenums of the Central Committee. One of the Central Committee secretaries supervised the work of the Orgburo. The first Orgburo of three members (Vladimirsky, Krestinsky and Sverdlov) was elected on January 16 1919, at the Central Committee meeting. The 8th party congress (March 8 1919 - March 23, 1919) amended the party charter and set up provisions for election of the Politburo, the Orgburo and the Secretariat. The Central Committee plenum elected the new Orgburo of five members and of one candidate member on March 25, 1919. Some key Communist politicians such as Stalin, Molotov, Kaganovich and others were both members of the Orgburo and of the Politburo, but most of the Orgburo members were less important figures than those elected to the Politburo and the Secretariat.
