The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From 1924 until the country's dissolution in 1991,
Joseph Stalin, 1950
Old Russia Yakov Sverdlov 1918 1
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982. He also held office as Chairman of the Pres
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
…Politburo and the Central Committee, which had been increasing since the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, led to Khrushchev's removal from office. Leonid Brezhnev succeeded Khrushchev as First Secretary, but was initially obliged to govern as part of a collective leadership, forming another troika with Premier…
Official portrait, 1972
Brezhnev (right) speaks with Nikita Khrushchev, 23 April 1943
Brezhnev in 1950
Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and Brezhnev's main patron