1917–1991

Party Secretariat and cadres

The line that moved appointments and party machinery through the Central Committee Secretariat, Organization Department and cadres apparatus.

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Leadership Timeline

  1. 1917–1918 Elena Dmitriyevna Stasova Central Committee technical secretary and party-organization work
  2. 1918–1919 Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov Chairman of the Secretariat and post-revolution party organization
  3. 1919 Elena Dmitriyevna Stasova Chairwoman of the Secretariat
  4. 1919–1921 Nikolay Nikolayevich Krestinsky Responsible Secretary
  5. 1921–1922 Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov Responsible Secretary
  6. 1922–1953 Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin General Secretary and control of the nomenklatura
  7. 1922–1924, 1928–1939 Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich Organization Department, Secretariat and party personnel control
  8. 1939–1946 Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov CC secretary and head of the Cadres Directorate
  9. 1946–1948 Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov CC secretary and postwar second figure in the Secretariat
  10. 1948–1953 Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov CC secretary and late-Stalin succession figure
  11. 1953–1964 Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev First Secretary and control of the party apparatus
  12. 1957–1960 Aleksey Illarionovich Kirichenko CC secretary for party appointments
  13. 1966–1976 Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko Senior CC secretary for cadres
  14. 1983–1990 Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev Organizational-party work chief and Second Secretary
  15. 1990–1991 Vladimir Antonovich Ivashko Deputy General Secretary and late party apparatus