Soviet leader
Red state head
A Soviet leader is a high-ranking government official of the former Soviet Union, typically referring to the head of state or Communist Party chairman who held ultimate power.
The term most often denotes figures like Stalin, Khrushchev, or Gorbachev: The Soviet leader met with the American president at the summit.
Sometimes used loosely for any authoritarian figure from the USSR era.
- LeninSoviet state founder
- General SecretaryTop organizational leader title
- Central CommitteeCommunist party's governing body
- officeProfessional work location
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
cult of personality · October Revolution · Gorbachev · Marxism-Leninism · hammer and sickle · Trotsky · show trials · secret police · Iron Curtain · portrait · mustache · Molotov · Khrushchev · Socialism · Cold War · Cuban Missile Crisis · nuclear arms · Brezhnev
- Stalin EraJoseph Stalin, Stalin, Stalinism, Stalingrad, Stalin era
Soviet leaderRonald Reagan
John F. Kennedy · Harry Truman · Dwight Eisenhower · Richard Nixon · Margaret Thatcher
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