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Timeline

1917

1922

1964

1984

Konstantin Chernenko

Alexander Kerensky

Leonid Brezhnev

Iosiph Stalin

1953

1982

1985

1917

Nikita Kruschev

Vladimir Illyoch Lenin

Mikhail Gorbachev

Yuri Andropov

Russian communist leader who led the October Revolution and created the Soviet communist regime. Member of a middle-class family in the Volga region, his animosity against the tsarist regime was exacerbated after the execution of his brother in 1887, accused of conspiracy. He studied at the universities of Kazan and Saint Petersburg, where he settled as a lawyer in 1893.

Russian socialist politician. A prominent leader of moderate socialism, after the fall of the tsarist monarchy he was minister of justice and war in the provisional government led by Prince Lvov. In June 1917 he was appointed head of the government, a position he held until the triumph of the Bolshevik revolution in November of that year.

Soviet leader who tightly governed the USSR from 1929 (the year in which he emerged as Lenin's successor after Trotsky's exile) until his death in 1953. At the price of bloody repression and immense sacrifices imposed on the population, Stalin managed to convert the Semi-feudal Russia became an economic and military power capable of contributing decisively to the Allied victory in World War II (1939-1945).

leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1953-1964). Coming from a mining family, he participated in the Bolshevik Revolution (1917) and fought in the Red Army during the Civil War that followed (1918-20). He then pursued a political career in the Communist Party of Ukraine, becoming first secretary of the Moscow region (1935-38) and the Republic of Ukraine (1938-49).

Top leader of the Soviet Union between 1983 and 1984. Son of a railroad worker, Yuri Andropov studied engineering and joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as a civil servant. His first jobs were diplomatic, highlighting his presence as ambassador in Budapest in 1956; He was one of the organizers of the Soviet military intervention that repressed the Hungarian revolution that had brought Imre Nagy to power that year.

Mikhail Gorbachev received the 2002 'Charles V European Prize' on June 3 in an event presided over by His Royal Highness the Prince of Asturias at the Yuste Monastery. This award recognizes the former Soviet president's contribution to the reinforcement and consolidation of European values ​​and the defense of democracy, human rights and the rule of law and, consequently, his contribution to general knowledge and enhancement of cultural values. scientists and historians of Europe.

Leader of the Soviet Union (1964-1982). After studying agronomy and industrial engineering, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1931, at the time when Stalin's purges eliminated the "old guard" of the Bolshevik Revolution and opened the doors of the party to the younger generations. Formed under the communist regime. He fought against the Germans in World War II (1939-45), reaching the rank of general.

Russian politician who was the top leader of the Soviet Union between 1984 and 1985; His brief tenure spanned from the 1984 death of his predecessor, Yuri Andropov, to his own death a year later.