Institution

Politburo

Also known as Political Bureau

The Politburo (Political Bureau) is the executive committee of a communist party's Central Committee and the real centre of power in a communist state. First created by the Russian Bolsheviks in 1917 and made permanent in 1919, the model was copied by the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and other communist states, where a small inner standing committee often holds supreme authority.

Politburo
Image: Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Politburo. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/politburo
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