Leaders - Soviet Union

The 8 leaders of Soviet Russia and the USSR, from Lenin to Gorbachev (1917-1991): Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and the others, with years in power and party.

Leaders
8
Longest time in power
29 years
Joseph Stalin

Chronological list

  1. 1917–1924
    Vladimir Lenin Russian Revolution 7 yearsCommunist Party
  2. 1924–1953
    Joseph Stalin 29 yearsCommunist Party
  3. 1953
    Georgy Malenkov less than a yearCommunist Party
  4. 1953–1964
    Nikita Khrushchev 11 yearsCommunist Party
  5. 1964–1982
    Leonid Brezhnev 18 yearsCommunist Party
  6. 1982–1984
    Yuri Andropov 2 yearsCommunist Party
  7. 1984–1985
    Konstantin Chernenko 1 yearCommunist Party
  8. 1985–1991
    Mikhail Gorbachev Fall of the Berlin Wall 6 yearsCommunist Party