first secretary
Communist party leader
First secretary is a diplomatic rank, typically the third-highest position in an embassy after ambassador and minister.
A first secretary handles substantive political, economic, or administrative work: She served as first secretary at the embassy in Berlin.
In some communist states, First Secretary was the title for the head of the ruling party, equivalent to general secretary: Khrushchev became First Secretary after Stalin's death.
- party leaderHead of political faction
- party bossPolitical organization's chief
- communistCollectivist political adherent
- inner circleExclusive group of confidants
- KremlinMoscow's fortified government seat
Soviet · iron curtain · cold war · Warsaw Pact · comrade · chairman · central committee · power struggle · apparatchik · Eastern Bloc · dictator · Poland · Hungary · bureaucrat · diplomatic · embassy · aide · protocol
first secretarysubordinate
One lower in rank
attaché · clerk · rank and file · underling · functionary
first secretaryprime minister
Leader of a parliamentary state
president · king · monarch · chancellor · premier
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