Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov 6 December 1901 – 14 January 1988 was a Soviet politician who briefly succeeded Joseph Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union. However, at the insistence of the rest of the Presidium, he relinquished control over the party apparatus in exchange for remaining Premier and first among equals within the Soviet collective leadership. He then became embroiled in a power struggle with Nikita Khrushchev that culminated
Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky born Anatoly Aleksandrovich Antonov, 23 November 1875 – 26 December 1933 was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Bolshevik Soviet People’s Commissar (Narkompros) responsible for Ministry of Education as well as an active playwright, critic, essayist and journalist throughout his career. Contents 1Background 2Career 2.1Vpered 2.2World War I 2.3People’s Commissariat for Education
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov 22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924, better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Soviet Communist
Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Косы́гин, tr. Aleksej Nikolajevič Kosygin, IPA: ; 21 February 1904 – 18 December 1980 was a Soviet-Russian statesman during the Cold War. He served as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1980 and was one of the most influential Soviet policymakers in the mid-1960s. Kosygin was born in the city of Saint Petersburg in 1904 to a Russian working-class family.
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev 15 April 1894 – 11 September 1971 was a Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union as the first secretary of the ruling Communist Party from 1953 to 1964 and as chairman of the country’s Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev presided over the beginning of de-Stalinization, the technological breakthroughs of the early Soviet space program, and the
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Кали́нин ; 19 November 1875 – 3 June 1946, known familiarly by Soviet citizens as “Kalinych”, was an Old Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician. He served as head of state of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and later of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946. From 1926, he was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev born 2 March 1931 is a Russian and former Soviet politician. The eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, he was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. He was also the country’s head of state from 1988 until 1991, serving as the
Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin Russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Булга́нин; 11 June 1895 – 24 February 1975 was a Soviet politician who served as Minister of Defense (1953–1955) and Premier of the Soviet Union (1955–1958) under Nikita Khrushchev, following service in the Red Army and as defence minister under Joseph Stalin. Contents 1Early career 2World War II 3Personality 4Premiership 5Personal life 6Honours and awards 7See also 8References 9External links Early
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin 9 October 1888 – 15 March 1938 was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, Marxist philosopher and prolific author on revolutionary theory. As a young man, he spent six years in exile working closely with fellow exiles Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. After the revolution of February 1917, he returned to Moscow, where his Bolshevik credentials earned him
Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte Russian: Серге́й Ю́льевич Ви́тте, tr. Sergéy Yúlyevich Vítte, IPA: ; 29 June 1849 – 13 March 1915, also known as Sergius Witte, was a Russian statesman who served as the first Prime Minister of the Russian Empire. He is widely considered to have been one of the key figures in Russian politics at the end of 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century. He