communist leader
Party secretary type
A communist leader is a person who heads a communist party, movement, or state.
The term most often refers to figures who led one-party socialist governments: Stalin was the most feared communist leader of his era.
It can also describe leaders of communist parties not in power, or revolutionaries seeking to establish communist rule.
- LeninSoviet state founder
- party chairmanHead of political organization
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
- MarxismClass-based revolutionary philosophy
- secret policeClandestine state security apparatus
Pol Pot · Russian Revolution · Ho Chi Minh · Che Guevara · Mao Zedong · Maoism · Kim Il-sung · Fidel Castro · central committee · Cuban Revolution · iron curtain · workers' councils · state socialism · single-party state · planned economy · Deng Xiaoping · Brezhnev · hammer and sickle
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Unscrupulous wealthy industrialist
industrialist · corporate titan · Milton Friedman · Ayn Rand · Margaret Thatcher
communist leaderconstitutional monarch
Sovereign bound by law
Thomas Jefferson · parliamentary leader · libertarian · federalist · elected representative
communist leaderaristocrat
Person of noble birth
oligarch · plutocrat · landed gentry · nobility · Tsar
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