General Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Browse the complete timeline of General Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union throughout history

Joseph Stalin 1922-04-03 — 1952-10-16
Nikita Khrushchev 1953-09-14 — 1964-10-14
Leonid Brezhnev 1964-10-14 — 1982-11-10
Yuri Andropov 1982-11-12 — 1984-02-09
Konstantin Chernenko 1984-02-13 — 1985-03-10
Mikhail Gorbachev 1985-03-11 — 1991-08-24
Volodymyr Ivashko 1991-08-24 — 1991-11-06