The title of General Secretary or First Secretary is commonly used for the leaders of most communist parties. When a communist party is the ruling party of a communist state, the general secretary is
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A central committee is a political-executive organ designated as the highest organ of a communist party between two congresses. Per the principles of democratic centralism, a central committee is empo
General Secretary of the Communist Party
…or premiership, thereby also becoming the de jure leader of the state. The position of general secretary is typically elected by the communist party's central committee (with the Workers' Party of Korea as an exception), and the holder of this title also serves on the communist party's politburo and secretariat. General…
The opening day (5 March 2015) of the 3rd Session of the 12th National People's Congress, the SSOP in China.
The following shows the composition of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine elected at its 3rd Congress, held on 1–6 March 1919.
Slobodan Milošević (left) and Ivan Stambolić (right) of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia attending the session of the 10th Congress of the League of Communists of Serbia that elected a new Central Committee.