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General Secretary from 3 April until , when he resigned from office; the post of General Secretary itself was abolished in October Succeeded to all of Stalin's titles, but was forced to resign most of them [42] within a month. Malenkov, through the office of Premier , was locked in a power struggle against Khrushchev. While vacationing in Abkhazia, Khrushchev was called by Leonid Brezhnev to return to Moscow for a special meeting of the Presidium, to be held on 13 October There, at the most fiery session since the so-called "anti-party group" crisis of , he was fired from all his posts [46] and became a "non-person".
To consolidate his power he later assumed the title of Chairman of the Presidium. File:Mikhail Gorbachev Served as General Secretary from 11 March , [53] and resigned on 24 August , [56] Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1 October [52] until the office was renamed to the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet on 25 May to 15 March [53] and President of the Soviet Union from 15 March [57] to 25 December When Vladimir Lenin suffered his first stroke a Troika was established to govern the country in his place.
The Troika was dissolved when Kamenev and Zinoviev decided to break with Stalin in and joined the faction led by Leon Trotsky. Lev Kamenev — [62]. Chernenko started working for the propaganda department in and rose through the ranks. The turning point in his career was a meeting with future Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in Brezhnev continued to help him rise through the ranks, with Chernenko gaining full membership to the Central Committee in Chernenko replaced Andropov as leader despite his own ailing health.
Chernenko supported a greater role for labor unions and reforming education and propaganda. Chernenko negotiated a trade pact with China but did little to de-escalate the Cold War, boycotted the Summer Olympics and did not end the war in Afghanistan. By the middle of , Chernenko's health started deteriorating and he died in March of Mikhail Gorbachev was born in Stavropol Krai, Russia in He joined and became very active in the Communist party while at Moscow State University and also graduated with a law degree.
By he had become a candidate member of the Politburo and in he became the leader of the Soviet Union after Chernenko's death. Gorbachev engaged in a race to amass nuclear weapons in space with the United States, which proved costly for the suffering Soviet economy.
Gorbachev managed to end the costly Soviet war in Afghanistan in He worked to provide more freedoms and reforms to the Soviet people with his policies of glasnost and perestroika openness and restructure.
In Gorbachev organized elections to require Communist Party members to run against non-members to make a more democratic electoral system. He also removed the Communist Party's constitutional role in governing the state, which inadvertently led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. This fact was in spite of Gorbachev wanting to keep the Soviet Union together. By Gorbachev was grappling with different groups waging war and demanding independence, along with a sputtering Soviet economy.
In Gorbachev's rival Boris Yeltsin was elected President of the Russian Republic and was pushing radical changes to the economy. By the end of December of , the Soviet Union had completely crumbled, and Gorbachev stepped down and gave Yeltsin complete power over Russia.
Gennady Yanayev was born in Perevoz, Russia in This fact helped him to gain a seat in the Politburo in and later that year with Gorbachev's help he became the first vice president of the Soviet Union. Yanayev quickly had growing doubts about Gorbachev's reform policies and started working with the Gang of Eight against Gorbachev.
He took formal leadership of the Gang of Eight and deposed Gorbachev during the August coup of The coup collapsed after three days due to the growing popularity of Boris Yeltsin, and Yanayev was arrested. He was pardoned in and spent the rest of his life working for the Russian tourism administration until his death in The Soviet Union grew out of the revolution lead by men like Lenin and Stalin to eventually become a world superpower to challenge the United States for world dominance for the second half of the 20th century.
You know how the various Soviet leaders rose to power and what they did in their time as leader. From their greatest achievements to their biggest failures, I hope that you now know more about the leaders of the Soviet Union.
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