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Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
The Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was the Soviet party's highest body between congresses, though real power passed to its Politburo and to Stalin.
Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中共中央委员会) is the party's central organ, reorganized across the Republic of China period and the early People's Republic.
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Центральный комитет Коммунистической партии Советского Союза)
Central Committee of the CPSU (Центральный комитет КПСС), the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's highest organ between congresses, headquartered at Staraya Square, Moscow; elected by each congress, dominated by the Politburo and Secretariat, purged under Stalin, dissolved in August 1991.
Central Committee of the VKP(b)
The Central Committee of the VKP(b) (ЦК ВКП(б)) was the All-Union Communist Party's highest governing organ between congresses, though real power passed to the Politburo.
Central Control Commission
The Central Control Commission (Центральная контрольная комиссия ВКП(б)) was the highest control organ of the Russian Communist Party, created on Lenin's initiative in 1920 and abolished in 1934.
Central European Free Trade Agreement
The Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) is a free trade agreement whose members are the six Western Balkan economies plus Moldova, founded in 1992.
Central European University
Central European University (CEU, Közép-európai Egyetem) is a private English-language research university in Vienna, founded by George Soros in 1991, which relocated from Budapest to Vienna in 2019.
Central Executive Committee of the USSR
The Central Executive Committee of the USSR (TsIK SSSR) was the highest organ of state power of the Soviet Union between All-Union Congresses of Soviets, from 1922 until 1938.
Central government
Central government: the level of government whose authority covers a country's entire territory, whether federal or unitary. Distinguished by constitutional supremacy in unitary states, constitutionally limited powers in federations, and shifting fiscal shares.
Central Health Service
The Central Health Service (CHS) is India's Group A central medical cadre, constituted in 1963, restructured into four sub-cadres in 1982, recruited via UPSC's CMSE, serving DGHS, CGHS, Delhi, and the Ministry of Labour.
Central High School (Bismarck, North Dakota)
Bismarck High School, known locally as Central, is a public high school in Bismarck, North Dakota, serving grades 9 through 12 with the Demons as its teams.
Central High School (Grand Forks, North Dakota)
Central High School is a public high school in Grand Forks, North Dakota, serving grades 9 through 12. Its program began in 1881, and it enrolled 1,115 students in 2024-25.
Central High School (Knoxville, Tennessee)
Central High School, Knoxville, Tennessee: public grades 9-12 high school in the Fountain City neighborhood of Knox County Schools, founded 1905/1906, oldest public high school in Knox County, moved to Jacksboro Pike in 1971, Bobcats, 865 Academies, UT Flagship School.
Central High School (Saint Paul, Minnesota)
Central High School, founded in 1866 as St. Paul High School, is a public high school in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and the city's oldest continuously operating public high school.
Central Indonesian National Committee
The Central Indonesian National Committee (KNIP) was a body created in 1945 to assist Indonesia's president that gained legislative power and became the forerunner of the modern parliament.
Central Industrial Security Force
The Central Industrial Security Force (केन्द्रीय औद्योगिक सुरक्षा बल), or CISF, is an Indian armed force under the Ministry of Home Affairs that guards airports, nuclear plants, and other industrial installations.
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), independent US civilian foreign intelligence agency established September 18, 1947 by the National Security Act; collects foreign intelligence, produces analysis, conducts covert action; headquartered in Langley, Virginia; led by Director John Ratcliffe since January 2025.
Central Intelligence Group
Central Intelligence Group (CIG), 1946–1947 US interdepartmental intelligence agency, CIA's predecessor, created by Truman's 22 January 1946 directive under first DCI Admiral Sidney Souers; missions of strategic warning and clandestine coordination; abolished by the National Security Act of 1947.
Central Japan Railway
Central Japan Railway Company, also known as JR Central (東海旅客鉄道), is the Japanese railway operator that owns and runs the Tokaido Shinkansen between Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka.
Central Michigan University
Central Michigan University (CMU), public research university in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, founded 1892 as a normal school, renamed 1959; Carnegie R2, ~14,200 students, ~300 programs, $460.3M FY2026-27 budget.
Central Military Commission (中央军事委员会) (China)
Central Military Commission (中央军事委员会): China's supreme military organ, in parallel party and state forms, leading the PLA under chairman Xi Jinping; reshaped by 2015 reforms and reduced by purges from seven members to two.
Central Office for South Vietnam
The Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN; Vietnamese: Trung ương Cục miền Nam) directed Communist Party and Viet Cong military operations in southern South Vietnam from 1961 to 1975.
Central Organization Department
The Central Organization Department (中共中央组织部) is the Chinese Communist Party body responsible for cadre management and internal personnel, created in May 1924 with Mao Zedong as its first head.
Central Park birdwatching incident
Central Park birdwatching incident, also called the Amy Cooper or Central Park Karen case: May 25, 2020 confrontation in which Amy Cooper falsely told 911 that Black birdwatcher Christian Cooper was threatening her after he asked her to leash her dog; she was fired, charged, and the charge was later dismissed.
Central Park jogger case
The Central Park jogger case, also called the Central Park Five or Exonerated Five case, was the 1989 rape of Trisha Meili and the wrongful conviction of five teenagers on false confessions, vacated in 2002 after Matias Reyes confessed and DNA matched.
Central Park Zoo
The Central Park Zoo is a 7-acre zoo in Central Park, Manhattan, operated by the Wildlife Conservation Society and among the oldest zoos in the United States.
Central Party School
The Central Party School (中共中央党校) is the Chinese Communist Party's academy for training senior cadres, founded at Ruijin in 1933 and closely tied to Mao Zedong, who served as its president from 1943 to 1947.
Central People's Broadcasting Station
Central People's Broadcasting Station (中央人民广播电台) is the national radio station of the People's Republic of China, which took its name in 1949 and traces its origins to a CCP station founded in Yan'an in 1940.
Central Plains War
The Central Plains War (中原大战) was a large-scale Chinese civil war fought from May to November 1930, in which Jiang Jieshi's Nanjing government defeated warlords Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang, and Li Zongren.
Central Powers
The Central Powers were the First World War alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary, joined by the Ottoman Empire in November 1914 and Bulgaria in October 1915, fighting the Triple Entente until separate armistices and peace treaties in 1918-1920.