Central Committee

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The Central Committee is a key governing body within a communist or socialist party that directs party policy and activities between sessions of the Party Congress.


Statements (44)
Predicate Object
instanceOf governing body
leadership body
party organ
associatedWith communist party
socialist party
canCreate departments
subordinate commissions
working groups
decisionMakingMode collective leadership
exercisesAuthority between sessions of the Party Congress
hasFunction coordinate party organizations
guide ideological work
implement Party Congress decisions
manage party cadre policy
hasJurisdictionOver national-level party affairs
hasMemberType heads of key party departments
regional party leaders
senior party officials
hasPower adopt party resolutions
approve major policy lines
supervise lower party bodies
hasRole directs party policy
oversees party activities
historicallyNotableIn Chinese Communist Party
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Cuban Communist Party
Vietnamese Communist Party
Workers’ Party of Korea
ideologyContext Marxism–Leninism
socialism
influencedBy democratic centralism
isCollectiveBody true
languageVariant Central Committee of the Communist Party
mayElect General Secretary
Politburo
Secretariat
meetingFrequency periodically between Party Congresses
meets plenary sessions
reportsTo Party Congress
scope national party policy
subordinateTo Party Congress
term from one Party Congress to the next
typicalIn Leninist party structures
typicalSelectionMethod elected by Party Congress delegates

Referenced by (6)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Central Committee ("Central Committee of the Communist Party")
languageVariant
What Is to Be Done? ("democratic centralism")
mainSubject
Central Committee ("Politburo")
mayElect
KPRF ("central committee")
organizationalStructure
Party Congress
reportsReceivedFrom
Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
shortName

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