general secretary
Organization's top administrator
A general secretary is the chief administrative officer of an organization, typically a political party, trade union, or similar body.
The title emphasizes broad executive authority rather than specialized function.
In communist and socialist parties, the general secretary has traditionally been the most powerful position, as with the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
She served as general secretary of the union for twelve years.
- party leaderHead of political faction
- party chiefHead of political organization
- communistCollectivist political adherent
- Soviet UnionFormer communist superstate
- political commissarMilitary officer ensuring ideological loyalty
apparatchik · top brass · central committee · inner circle · supreme leader · cult of personality · power struggle · iron grip · behind closed doors · office · executive · administration · party congress · position · leadership · boss · Marxism-Leninism · state socialism
- communismMarx, Marxism, Leninism, Lenin, proletariat
- party leadersparty leader, party chair, party boss, party chief, majority leader
- Soviet LeadershipStalin, Lenin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev
- Soviet Officialsapparatchik, commissar, party boss, functionary, cadre
- Soviet systemKremlin, five-year plans, central committee, Politburo, collectivization
- Stalin EraJoseph Stalin, Stalin, Stalinism, Stalingrad, Stalin era
general secretaryfoot soldier
Basic infantry combatant
subordinate · backbencher · party member · grassroots activist · junior staff
general secretaryfigurehead
Nominal leader, no authority
titular head · puppet leader · constitutional monarch · rubber stamp · puppet
general secretaryprime minister
Leader of a parliamentary state
elected leader · president · chancellor · parliamentary leader
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