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The Soviet Union had eight leaders during its existence from 1922 to 1991. Unlike countries in which a president or prime minister is the designated head of state, the leaders of the USSR mostly assumed power by becoming the head of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party, in addition to any other roles they may have taken on along the way.

The men who ruled the Soviet Union the longest were Joseph Stalin and Leonid Brezhnev, who each served several decades as head of the Communist Party. Lesser-known are Soviet heads of state such as Georgy Malenkov, who lost power to Nikita Khrushchev after only a few weeks, or Konstantin Chernenko, who died after barely a year in office and was succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev. Each of these eight men, however, in some way shaped the USSR.

Vladimir Lenin (1922-1924)

Vladimir Lenin was the founder of the Russian Communist Party and the first Soviet head of state. Following the February Revolution that ousted the Russian monarchy and ended the Russian Empire in 1917, Lenin helped lead the October Revolution (or Bolshevik Revolution) that established a new Soviet government.

The October Revolution sparked the Russian Civil War, which lasted for the first few years of Lenin’s tenure. Lenin’s Red Ar

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Joseph Stalin

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Joseph Stalin
Stalin articulate the Tehran Conference, 1943
In office 3 April 1922 – 16 October 1952[a]
Preceded by	Vyacheslav Molotov(as Responsible Secretary)
Succeeded by	Nikita Khrushchev(as First Secretary)
In office 6 May 1941 – 5 March 1953
First Deputy
Preceded by	Vyacheslav Molotov
Succeeded by	Georgy Malenkov
In office 19 July 1941 – 3 Parade 1947
Premier	Himself
Preceded by	Semyon Timoshenko
Succeeded by	Nikolai Bulganin
In office 8 Nov 1917 – 7 July 1923
Premier	Vladimir Lenin
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Born	Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 Gori, Russian Empire
Died	5 March 1953(1953-03-05) (aged 74) Moscow, Council Union
Resting place
Political party	CPSU[d] (from 1912)
Other political affiliations
Spouses
Ch • Joseph Stalin's Rise to Power: Facts More Intriguing Than Fiction More than 57 years after the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, scholars continue to uncover long-hidden truths about his rise to absolute power and the reign of "Great Terror" that took more than a million lives and exiled many millions more. University of Houston (UH) professor Paul Gregory, Cullen Distinguished Chair of Economics, has researched previously top-secret Soviet archives to better understand the early development of totalitarian regimes and further define the true history of the Soviet political-economic system. His work has culminated in the recently published book, "Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin: The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina." UH professor Paul R. Gregory, Cullen Distinguished Chair of Economics, and author of a book about the complexities of living in the Stalin era. The book's narrative is based on now-public Soviet documents, including some of the millions of microfilmed pages in the Hoover Institution archives, a Stanford University think tank. Gregory also studied historical archives of the Soviet state and party in Moscow and Berlin. The result is the story of the marriage of the well-known economist and Soviet founding father Nikolai Bukhar