List of General Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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After the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky was deposed, the Communist party took power, installing a long communist dictatorship that lasted until Mikhail Gorbachev resigned in 1991.

Vladimir Lenin (1917 - 1924) (offically Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars)
Josef Stalin (1922 - 1953)
Georgy Malenkov (1953)
Nikita Khrushchev (1953 - 1964)
Leonid Brezhnev (1964 - 1982)
Yuri Andropov (1982 - 1984)
Konstantin Chernenko (1984 - 1985)
Mikhail Gorbachev (1985 - 1991)
Vladimir Ivashko (acting, 1991)

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