The Bureaus of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks) (
Russian: Бюро ЦК РКП(б)), later Bureaus of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) (
Russian: Бюро ЦК ВКП(б)) were regional representatives of the
RCP(b) Central Committee to coordinate the activities of the party and state organs. They were created in
gubernias (major subdivisions in early
Soviet Russia), later
oblasts and
krais. Created as early as in 1918, their goal initial was to overcome the weakness and inexperience of the local party organs and difficulties of communication, especially with remote regions.[1]
The following bureaus existed.
March 1918 — March 1919: Petrograd (Петроградское); created to ensure the continuity during the moving of the Soviet capital from
Petrograd to
Moscow[2]
^Урало-Сибирское Бюро ЦК РКП(б), Уральская историческая энциклопедия. — УрО РАН, Институт истории и археологии. Екатеринбург: Академкнига. editor-in-chief В. В. Алексеев. 2000.