Soviet Leaders from Lenin to GorbachevSurveys the history of the Soviet Union through the exploits and achievements of the seven men who were its leaders from 1917 to 1991; Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, and Mikhail Gorbachev. |
Common terms and phrases
agricultural Alexander allies allowed appointed arrested began Bolshevik party bureaucracy capital Central Committee cities Communist officials Communist party country's criticism death Despite dictatorship Dzhugashvili eastern Europe elected ernment exile factory workers fear gain Georgian glasnost Hitler huge industrial joined Josef Stalin Kalinovka Khrushchev became Komsomol Konstantin Chernenko Kulakov leadership Leonid Brezhnev lived loyal Malenkov managers Marx meeting Mensheviks ment Mikhail Gorbachev military missiles Moldavia Moscow nation Nikita Khrushchev nuclear opposed ordered organization Party members Party officials Party's peasants perestroika Petersburg Petrograd plans police Politburo political provisional government Red Army Red Guards reforms region republics revolution rule Russian Empire secret secretary Siberia socialism socialist soldiers Soviet citizens Soviet control Soviet economy Soviet government Soviet leader Soviet system Soviet Union speech Stavropol tion took Trotsky tsar Tsar Nicholas U.S. President Ukraine Ukrainian Ulyanov United USSR Vladimir Lenin voted western Yeltsin Yuri Andropov Yuzovka