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| 1904 | Krzhizhanovski, Gleb |  |
| Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| 1904 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| Appointed Joint representitive of the Central Committee abroad with Noske |
| 1904 | Noskov, Vladimir | |
| Appointed Joint representitive of the Central Committee abroad with Lenin |
| 1907 | Zinoviev, Grigory Yevseyevich | |
| Elected to the Central Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Party |
| 1917 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| 3rd Aug Stalin is elected to the Central Committee of the Bolsheviks |
| 1921 | Kirov, Sergei Mironovich | |
| Appointed Candidate Member of the Central Committee |
| 1921 | Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich | |
| Appointed Secretary of the Central Committee |
| 1921 | Voroshilov, Klimenty Efremovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| 1923 | Kirov, Sergei Mironovich | |
| Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| 1927 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| 25th Oct Moscow Decides to break the truce with the internal Communist Party opposition |
| 1927 | Trotsky, Leon | |
| 21st Oct Moscow Claims the Politburo has betrayed the Revolution |
| 21st Oct Moscow Criticizes Stalin at the Plenum |
| 21st Oct Moscow Forces a discussion of Lenin's Testament at the Plenum |
| 1934 | Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich | |
| Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| 1934 | Khruschev, Nikita Sergeyevich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| 1934 | Kirov, Sergei Mironovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Central Committee Secretariat |
| 1934 | Malenkov, Georgi Maksimilanovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Chairman of the Central Committee |
| 1939 | Budenny, Semyon Mikhaylovich | |
| Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| 1939 | Bulganin, Nikolai Aleksandrovich | |
| Appointed Membrer of the Central Committee |
| 1947 | Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich | |
| Appointed 2nd Secretary of the Central Committee in Karelia |
| 1952 | Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Presidium of the Central Committee |
| 1952 | Brezhnev, Leonoid Ilych | |
| Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| Appointed Secretary of the Central Committee |
| 1952 | Chuikov, Vassili | |
| Appointed Candidate Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party |
| 1952 | Kosygin, Aleksei Nikolaevich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Presidium of the Central Committee |
| 1952 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| Moscow The Politburo is renamed the Presidium, it is the inner council & supreme body |
| 1952 | Ustinov, Dmitry Fedorovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| 1956 | Podgorny, Nikolai Viktorovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| 1956 | Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Presidium of the Central Committee |
| 1960 | Kozlov, Frol Romanovich | |
| Mar Appointed Secretary for Cadres in the Central Committee Secretariat |
| 1961 | Chuikov, Vassili | |
| Appointed Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party |
| 1963 | Podgorny, Nikolai Viktorovich | |
| Appointed Secretary of the Central Committee |
| 1964 | Brezhnev, Leonoid Ilych | |
| 14th Oct Moscow The Central Committee decides First Secretary Prime Minister must be separate |
| 1966 | Aleksandrov, Anatoly Petrovich | |
| Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| 1966 | Ligachev, Egor Kuzmich | |
| Moscow Appointed Candidate Member of the Central Committee |
| 1971 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Mar Moscow Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| 1972 | Bolgikh, Vladimir Ivanovich | |
| Appointed Secretary of the Central Committee |
| 1976 | Ligachev, Egor Kuzmich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| 1976 | Shevardnadze, Eduard | |
| Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| 1981 | Akhromeev, Sergei Fedorovich | |
| Appointed Candidate Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party |
| 1981 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| 1981 | Zagladin, Vadim Valentinovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| 1981 | Zaikov, Lev Nikolaevich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| 1982 | Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Presidium of the Central Committee |
| 1983 | Akhromeev, Sergei Fedorovich | |
| Appointed Full Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party |
| 1983 | Ligachev, Egor Kuzmich | |
| Appointed Secretary of the Central Committee |
| 1985 | Zaikov, Lev Nikolaevich | |
| Appointed Secretary of the Central Committee |
| 1986 | Bakatin, Vadim Viktorovich | |
| Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| 1986 | Primakov, Evgeny Maksimovich | |
| June Moscow Appointed Candidate Member of the Central Committee |
| 1986 | Razumovsky, Georgy Petrovich | |
| Appointed Secretary of the Central Committee |
| 1986 | Yakovlev, Alexander | |
| Appointed Central Committee Secretary |
| 1987 | Lukyanov, Anatoly Ivanovich | |
| Appointed Secretary of the Central Committee |
| 1987 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 21st Oct Moscow Reveals that he has threatened to resign as a Member of the Politburo |
| 21st Oct Moscow Warns against the growing "cult of personality", comparison between Gorbachev & Stalin |
| 1989 | Primakov, Evgeny Maksimovich | |
| April Moscow Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
