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A Brief Look at the USSR's Different Communist Leaders

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    USSR's Leaders

    The USSR's leaders started at 1917 and ended in 1991.

  • Vladimir Lenin

    Vladimir Lenin
    In 1917, Vladimir, head of the Bolshivek party, led the October Revolution. After three years of Civil War, the Bolshiveks were victorious and got total control of the country. As leader, he introduced the New Economic Policy. In 1918, vladimir Lenin was shot during a speech in Moscow which caused a lot of conflict between Bolsheviks and the Social Revolutionaries. He then introduced the New Economic Plan. He served as leader from 1922 until his death.

  • Joseph Stalin

    Joseph Stalin
    Joseph Stalin was the de facto leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Tens of millions of individuals were executed or imprisoned in labour camps that were little more than death camps.

  • Nikita Khrushchev

    Nikita Khrushchev
    Khrushchev provoked the Cuban Missile Crisis and oversaw the building of the Berlin Wall. He served as leader from March 27th to Oct. 4th of 1964 when he retired. Nikita established a more open form of Communism in the USSR.

  • Leonid Brezhnev

    Leonid Brezhnev
    The Soviet Union who restored Stalinist-type dictatorship thus causing economic stagnation and disproportionate military growth that exhausted the Soviet economy and eventually led to collapse of the Soviet Union.

  • Yuri Adropov

    Yuri Adropov
    After Leonid's death, he took office, but ill health quickly overtook him, and he accomplished little else before his death 15 months later.

  • Konstantin Chernenko

    Konstantin Chernenko
    When he took power at age 72, he became the third Soviet leader in less than two and one-half years. Chernenko's poor health made him unable to govern effectively.His very frequent absences from office left little doubt that his reign had only been an interim measure in a longer struggle between conservatives and reformers.

  • Mikhail Gorbachev

    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Soviet official and last president of the Soviet Union. His foreign policy brought about an end to the Cold War, while within the USSR he introduced major reforms known as glasnost and perestroika. He resigned following an attempted coup. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990.