Robert Wilton's Lists of Communist Officials:

Here is Wilton's list of Sovnarkom members from the IHR site:

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The Soviet government, or "Council of People's Commissars' (also known
as the "Sovnarkom") was made up of the following, Wilton reported:
Peoples Commissariat (Ministry)  Name  Nationality
Chairman  V.I. Ulyanov (Lenin)  Russian
Foreign Affairs  G.V. Chicherin  Russian
Nationalities  J. Dzhugashvili [Stalin]  Georgian
Agriculture  Protian  Armenian
Economic Council  Lourie (Larin)  Jew
Food Supply  A.G. Schlikhter  Jew
Army and Navy [Military]  L.D. Bronstein (Trotski)  Jew
State Control  K.I. Lander  Jew
State Lands  Kaufmann  Jew
Works [Labor]  V. Schmidt  Jew
Social Relief  E. Lilina (Knigissen)  Jew
Education  A. Lunacharsky  Russian
Religion  Spitzberg  Jew
Interior  Apfelbaum [Radomyslski] (Zinoviev)  Jew
Hygiene  Anvelt  Jew
Finance  I. E. Gukovs [and G. Sokolnikov]  Jew
Press  Voldarski [Goldstein]  Jew
Elections  M.S. Uritsky  Jew
Justice  I.Z. Shteinberg  Jew
Refugees  Fenigstein  Jew
Refugees  Savitch (Assistant)  Jew
Refugees  Zaslovski (Assistant)  Jew

Out of these 22 "Sovnarkom" members, Wilton summed'up [sic], there were
three Russians, one Georgian, one Armenian, and 17 Jews.

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Results of my research:

According to the Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution
(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1988, pp. 170-171),
the Sovnarkom consisted of the following people in 1917 and 1918:

[1918 members--replacing the earlier ones--are in brackets]
[1917 members who never actively served are in curly braces]

Foreign Affairs: Trotsky [Chicherin]
Internal Affairs:  Rykov, Petrovsky [Dzerzhinsky]
Local Government: Trutovsky
Nationalities: Stalin
Justice: {Lomov} Steinberg [Stuchka, Kursky]
State Control: Essen [Lander]
Finance: {Skvortsov-Stepanov} Menzhinsky [Gukovsky, Krestinsky]
Labor: Shlyapnikov [Shmidt]
Welfare: Kollontai
Education: Lunacharsky
Posts and Telegraphs: Avilov [Proshyan, Podbelsky]
Properties of the Republic: Karelin
Agriculture: Milyutin, Kolegaev [Sereda]
Food Supplies: Tedorovich, Shlichter [Tsyrupa]
Transport: Elizarov [Rogov, Kobozev, Nevsky]
Trade and Industry: Nogin [Smirnov, Krasin]
VSNKh (Probably Wilton's "Economic Council"): Osinsky [Rykov]
Army: Podvoisky
Navy: Dybenko  [Army and Navy replaced by "War": Trotsky]
[1918 Commissar for Social Security: Vinokurov]

In conclusion, Wilton's list is complete garbage.
Using Blackwell as the standard, Wilton (for whatever
time we take him as talking about) appears to leave out
some Commissars, to list some Commissariats not represented
in the Sovnarkom, to list some Commissars incorrectly, and to
incorrectly list Steinberg and Shmidt as if they served at
the same time. Of course, the whole thing would smell
fishy to an intelligent person anyway. Why are "assistants"
listed for one Commisariat? And above all, why does Weber
have to quote an 80-year-old piece of anti-Semitica
for the sort of information one gets from the reference shelf?

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Wilton's List of Central Committee Members:

Effective governmental power, Wilton continued (on pages 136-138 of the same
edition) is in the Central Committee of the Bolshevik party. In 1918, he
reported, this body had twelve members, of whom nine were of Jewish origin,
and three were of Russian ancestry. The nine Jews were: Bronstein (Trotsky),
Apfelbaum (Zinoviev), Lurie (Larine), Uritsky, Volodarski, Rosenfeld
(Kamenev), Smidovich, Sverdlov (Yankel), and Nakhamkes (Steklov). The three
Russians were: Ulyanov (Lenin), Krylenko, and Lunacharsky.

The results of my reasearch:


According to the Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution
(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1988, p. 168),
this was not the membership of the Central Committee in
either 1917 or 1918 (Sverdlov died shortly before
the Eighth Party Congress in 1919).

The following were full voting members
of the Central Committee
in 1917 according to Blackwell:

Lenin, Kamenev, Stalin, Nogin, Rykov,
Sergeev, Milyutin, Krestinsky, Berzin,
Muranov, Zinoviev, Trotsky, Kollontai,
Sverdlov, Bukharin, Uritsky, Dzerzhinsky,
Sokolnikov, Smilga, Shaumayn, Bubnov

The following were full voting members in 1918:

Lenin, Stalin, Lashevich, Stasova,
Sergeev, Krestinsky, Zinoviev,
Trotsky, Sverdlov, Bukharin,
Dzerhinsky, Sokolnikov, Smilga,
Vladimirsky, Shmidt

So most of the members
were actually non-Jews.
And if you are still
entertaining the notion
that Wilton's lists
are accurate, how do you suppose
that major figures such
as Stalin, Dzerzhinsky,
and Bukharin came to be
left out?