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| 1917 | Kamenev, Lev Borisovich |  |
| Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1918 | Zinoviev, Grigory Yevseyevich | |
| Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1919 | Bukharin, Nikolai | |
| Moscow The Politburo is first composed of Lenin, Trotsky, Kamanev, Bukharin & Stalin |
| 1919 | Kamanev, Lev Borisovich | |
| Moscow The Politburo is first composed of Lenin, Trotsky, Kamanev, Bukharin & Stalin |
| 1919 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| Moscow The Politburo is first composed of Lenin, Trotsky, Kamanev, Bukharin & Stalin |
| Moscow The Politburo is formally set up at the VIIIth Communist Party Congress |
| Moscow The Politburo is set up to control the Central Committee of the Communist Party |
| Moscow The Politburo, Orgburo & secretariat of the Russian Communist Party are created |
| 1919 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| Moscow The Politburo is first composed of Lenin, Trotsky, Kamanev, Bukharin & Stalin |
| 1919 | Trotsky, Leon | |
| Moscow The Politburo is first composed of Lenin, Trotsky, Kamanev, Bukharin & Stalin |
| 1922 | Rykov, Aleksey Ivanovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1924 | Bukharin, Nikolai | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1925 | Kalinin, Mikhail Ivonovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1926 | Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1926 | Voroshilov, Klimenty Efremovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1930 | Kaganovich, Lazar Moiseevich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1930 | Kirov, Sergei Mironovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1935 | Zhdanov, Andrei Aleksandrovich | |
| Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1939 | Khruschev, Nikita Sergeyevich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo, full member |
| 1946 | Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1946 | Malenkov, Georgi Maksimilanovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1948 | Kosygin, Aleksei Nikolaevich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1949 | Bulganin, Nikolai Aleksandrovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1953 | Bagirov, Mir Dzhafar Abassovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo, Candidate Member |
| 1957 | Brezhnev, Leonoid Ilych | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1957 | Kozlov, Frol Romanovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1958 | Podgorny, Nikolai Viktorovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo, Candidate Member |
| 1960 | Chernenko, Konstantin Ustinovich | |
| 9th Feb Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1960 | Podgorny, Nikolai Viktorovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1964 | Mazurov, Kirill Trofimovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo, Candidate Member |
| 1965 | Mazurov, Kirill Trofimovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1967 | Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1973 | Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1973 | Grechko, Andrei Antonovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1976 | Ustinov, Dmitry Fedorovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1978 | Shevardnadze, Eduard | |
| Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1979 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 26th Dec Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo, Candidate Member |
| 1980 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1985 | Chebrikov, Viktor | |
| 23rd April Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1985 | Gromyko, Andrei Andreyevich | |
| 10th Mar Moscow 1st at the politburo meeting to propose Gorbachev as a replacement for Chernenko |
| 1985 | Ligachev, Egor Kuzmich | |
| 23rd April Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1985 | Ryzhkov, Nikolai | |
| 23rd April Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1986 | Yakovlev, Alexander | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1986 | Zaikov, Lev Nikolaevich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1988 | Lukyanov, Anatoly Ivanovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Politburo, Candidate Member |
| 1989 | Primakov, Evgeny Maksimovich | |
| Sep Moscow Appointed Candidate Member of the Politburo |
