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Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) (Russian: Коммунистическая Партия Советского Союза, tr. Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza, IPA [kəmʊnʲɪˈsʲtʲiʨɪskəjə ˈpartʲɪja sɐˈvʲeʦkəvə sɐˈjʊzə], abbr.: КПСС (KPSS)) was the ruling and only legal political party in the Soviet Union (until...
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Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Путин (help·info), IPA [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ ˈputʲɪn]; born 7 October 1952) was the second President of Russia and is the current Prime Minister of Russia as well as chairman of...
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following Lenin's death in 1924, he rose to become the leader of...
Konstantin Chernenko
Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (Russian: Константи́н Усти́нович Черне́нко, Konstantin Ustinovič Černenko; 24 September 1911 – 10 March 1985) was a Soviet politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He led the Soviet...
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: Михаил Сергеевич Горбачёв (help·info), IPA [mʲɪxɐˈil sʲɪrˈɡʲeɪvʲɪtɕ ɡərbɐˈtɕof]; born 2 March 1931) was the second-to-last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until...
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev (April 15, 1894 – September 11, 1971) led the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier,...
Yuri Andropov
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (Russian: Ю́рий Влади́мирович Андро́пов, Yury Vladimirovich Andropov) (15 June [O.S. 2 June] 1914 – 9 February 1984) was a Soviet politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 12...
Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (Russian: Леони́д Ильи́ч Бре́жнев (help·info), Ukrainian: Леоні́д Іллі́ч Бре́жнєв, 19 December [O.S. 6 December] 1906 – 10 November 1982) was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (and thus political...
Mikhail Kalinin
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Кали́нин) (1875 – 1946), known familiarly by Soviet citizens as "Kalinych," was a Bolshevik revolutionary and the nominal head of state of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946. From 1926 he was a...
Dmitriy Ustinov
Dmitriy Feodorovich Ustinov (Russian: Дми́трий Фёдорович Усти́нов; October 30, 1908 – December 20, 1984) was Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death.
Dimitry Feodorovich Ustinov was born in Samara to a working-class family....
Dzhokhar Dudaev
Dzhokhar Musayevich Dudayev (Chechen: Дудин Муса кант Жовхар; Russian: Джохар Мусаевич Дудаев) (February 1944 – April 21, 1996) was a Soviet Air Force general and a Chechen leader, the first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, a breakaway...
Ivan Serov
General Ivan Aleksandrovich Serov (Russian: Иван Александрович Серов, August 13, 1905 – July 1, 1990) was the head of KGB between 1954 and 1958, a as well as head of GRU between 1958 and 1963. He was Deputy Commissar of the NKVD under Lavrentiy...
Gennady Yanayev
Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev (Янаев, Геннадий Иванович in Russian) (born August 26, 1937), is a Russian politician and statesman. He was also the only Vice President of the Soviet Union (1990-91).
Yanayev had worked with Komsomol since 1963. In 1968...
Arvīds Pelše
Arvīds Pelše (Russian: А́рвид Я́нович Пе́льше, Arvid Yanovich Pelshe); February 7 [O.S. January 26] 1899, Iecava, Bauska District, Latvia – May 29, 1983, Moscow) was a historian, Soviet politician and functionary.
Pelše was born into a peasant...
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин (help·info); Russian pronunciation: [bɐˈɾʲis nʲɪkɐˈɫaɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn]) (1 February 1931 –23 April 2007) was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999....
Valentina Matviyenko
Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko (Russian: Валенти́на Ива́новна Матвие́нко, b. April 7, 1949) is a Russian politician, a member of United Russia party. She has been the governor of Saint Petersburg since she was elected in 2003. She is currently the...
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Vladimir Ivashko
Vladimir Antonovich Ivashko (Russian: Владимир Антонович Ивашко Ukrainian: Володимир Антонович Івашко) (28 October 1932 — 13 November 1994), was briefly the acting General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the period from...
Christian Rakovsky
Christian Rakovsky (August 13 [O.S. August 1] 1873 – September 11, 1941) was a Bulgarian socialist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and Soviet diplomat; he was also noted as a journalist, physician, and essayist. Rakovsky's political career...
