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