People of the Revolution and the USSR
Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
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People of the thaw and the stagnation 1953–1985
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GlossarySoviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
- Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev Никита Сергеевич Хрущёв He opened the coffin lid, and became the first leader to die in bed
- Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev Леонид Ильич Брежнев The man whose statecraft was not rocking the boat
- Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko Константин Устинович Черненко The last General Secretary of the Brezhnev order