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Malenkov at Castle Donington Power Station (1950).

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Who was behind Malenkov's downfall and how did Khrushchev outplay him in the power struggle?

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Brezhnev's Kremlin - Secrets of the Cold War (SECRETS OF WAR MILITARY HISTORY DOCUMENTARY).

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Brezhnev vs. Kosygin- The Fall of the Genius Who Could Have Saved the USSR.

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A Rotten Stinking Mess, Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko.

Russian Provisional Republic/"White Russia"[]

  1. Knyaz Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov 2 March 1917 to 8 July 1917.
  2. Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky 8 July 1917 to 26 October 1917.

President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR) /Communist Russia/"Red Russia"/"Bolshevik Russia"[]

The Soviet Union grew out of the revolution lead by men like Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin to eventually became the world's superpower to challenge the United States for world dominance for the second half of the 20th century.

  1. Lev Kamenev 9 November 1917-21 November 1917
  2. Yakov Sverdlov 21 November 1917-16 March 1919
  3. Mikhail Vladimirsky 16 March 1919-30 March 1919 (temporally)
  4. Mikhail Kalinin 30 March 1919-15 July 1938
  5. Andrei Zhdanov 15 July 1938-19 July 1938
  6. Aleksei Badayev 19 July 1938-9 April 1943
  7. Ivan Vlasov 9 April 1943-4 March 1944 (temporally)
  8. Nikolai Shvernik 4 March 1944-25 June 1946
  9. Ivan Vlasov 25 June 1946-7 July 1950
  10. Mikhail Tarasov 7 July 1950-16 April 1959
  11. Nikolai Ignatov 16 April 1959-26 November 1959
  12. Nikolai Organov 26 November 1959-20 December 1962
  13. Nikolai Ignatov 20 December 1962-14 November 1966
  14. Mikhail Yasnov 23 December 1966-26 March 1985
  15. Vladimir Orlov 26 March 1985-3 October 1988
  16. Vitaly Vorotnikov 3 October 1988-29 May 1990
  17. Boris Yeltsin 29 May 1990 to 25 December 1991

USSR/Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/Soviet Union[]

The Soviet Union grew out of the revolution lead by men like Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin to eventually became the world's superpower to challenge the United States for world dominance for the second half of the 20th century.

Leaders[]

  1. Vladimir Lenin 30 December 1922 to 21 January 1924.
  2. Joseph Stalin 21 January 1924 to 5 March 1953.
  3. Georgy Malenkov 5 March 1953 to 8 February 1955.
  4. Nikita Khrushchev 8 February 1955 to 14 October 1964.
  5. Leonid Brezhnev 14 October 1964 10 November 1982.
  6. Yuri Andropov 12 November 1982 to 9 February 1984.
  7. Konstantin Chernenko 13 February 1984 to 10 March 1985.
  8. Mikhail Gorbachev 11 March 1985 to 19 August 1991.
  9. Gennady Yanayev 19 August 1991 to 21 August 1991.
  10. Mikhail Gorbachev 21 August 1991 to 25 December 1991.

Emergency triumvirates[]

  1. Lev Kamenev, Joseph Stalin* and Grigory Zinoviev = May 1922 to 1925.
  2. Lavrentiy Beria, Georgy Malenkov* and Vyacheslav Molotov = 13 March 1953 to 26 June 1953.
  3. Leonid Brezhnev**, Alexei Kosygin* and Nikolai Podgorny = 14 October 1964 to 16 June 1977.

De facto rule, but not de jure under Khrushchev[]

  1. Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin* 8 February 1955 – 27 March 1958.

De facto and de jure rule under Brezhnev[]

  1. Alexei Kosygin** 1964-1968
  • *= De facto, but not de jure leader.
  • **= De facto and de jure leader.

Russian Federation/Russian Republic/Russia[]

  1. Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin July 10, to 1991 December 31, 1999.
  2. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin December 31, 1999 to May 7, 2008.
  3. Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev May 7, 2008 to September 24, 2011.
  4. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin May 7, 2012 to-incumbent (term expired May 7, 2018, but he ignored this).

Their ethnicity and class stats[]

  1. Georgy Lvov= Russian of noble origin. De facto Peasant.
  2. Alexander Kerensky= Russian. Working class.
  3. Vladimir Lenin= Russian, Jewish, Swedish, German and 25% Kalmyk. 50% peasant/50% middle class.
  4. Joseph Stalin= Georgian, Armenian, Russian and Jewish. Peasant.
  5. Georgy Malenkov= Some Macedonian, but mostly Russian. 50% working class\50% middle class.
  6. Nikolai Bulganin= Russian. Working class.
  7. Nikita Khrushchev= Russian (declared himself Ukrainian). Peasant.
  8. Leonid Brezhnev= 50% Russian\50% Ukrainian (declared himself Russian). Working class.
  9. Alexei Kosygin= Russian. Working class.
  10. Konstantin Chernenko= 50% Ukrainian (who declared himself Russian)\50% Siberian native. Peasant.
  11. Yuri Andropov= Jewish and German (declared himself 50% Russian/50% Cossack). Merchants.
  12. Mikhail Gorbachev= 50% Ukrainian\50% Russian. Peasant.
  13. Gennady Yanayev= Russian. Working class.
  14. Boris Yeltsin= Russian. Working class.
  15. Vladimir Putin= Russian. Working class.
  16. Dmitry Medvedev= Russian. Middle class.

Their political progressiveness and political faction[]

  1. Georgy Lvov= status quo, White Russian.
  2. Alexander Kerensky= status quo, White Russian.
  3. Vladimir Lenin= paranoid progressive, Leninist.
  4. Joseph Stalin= paranoid psychopath, Stalinist.
  5. Georgy Malenkov= progressive, proto-reformist.
  6. Nikolai Bulganin= status quo, Stalinist.
  7. Nikita Khrushchev= paranoid, generally progressive, Khrushchevite.
  8. Leonid Brezhnev= kleptocratic, foreign relations progressive, Brezhnevist.
  9. Alexei Kosygin= economic progressive, disillusioned-Brezhnevist who turned on the Brezhnevists.
  10. Konstantin Chernenko= foreign relations progressive, reformist.
  11. Yuri Andropov= foreign relations progressive, reformist.
  12. Mikhail Gorbachev= generally progressive, glasnost reformist.
  13. Gennady Yanayev= status quo, political old-guard.
  14. Boris Yeltsin= drunken looser, Western puppet.
  15. Vladimir Putin= paranoid and deluded psychopath, fascist.
  16. Dmitry Medvedev= technological and economic progressive, fascist.

Brezhnev (since about 1975), Stalin (post WW2), Putin (post 2014) and Yelstin (post 1996) were not worth having, since by then they were useless.

Also see[]

  1. USSR
  2. GDR
  3. National leaders
  4. Czechoslovakia
  5. Czechoslovakian leaders
  6. Czechoslovak coup d'état of 1948
  7. Soviet political organs
  8. Politically Communist and/or Socialist
  9. Life under communism
  10. Soviet Social Apparatus
  11. Czechoslovakian leaders
  12. American Presidents since 1913
  13. Alternate Russian and Soviet Leaders between 1953 and 2025
Communist world! (1922-1991)
The Warsaw Pact and the military Warsaw Pact - People's Republic of Albania (left) - German Democratic Republic- Czech Socialist Republic- Warsaw Pact Rail - USSR -People's Republic of Poland - Hungarian People's Republic - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - People's Republic of Bulgaria - Polish People's Republic - Romanian Popular Republic - Romanian People's Republic - Soviet 5.45x39mm - Soviet Southern Group of Forces -Seven days to the River Rhine (1979) - Jüterbog Airfield -Topoľčany Army Barracks and bunker system - Brezhnev Doctrine - Soviet war in Afghanistan - Vladivostok Navel base - Murmansk Navel base - Archangelsk Navel base - Kaliningrad Navel base - Sevastopol Navel base - Kazan Higher Tank Command School and related tank factory - Burevestnik Airport - People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (de facto, but not de jure) - AK-47\Kalashnikov assault rifle - Red Army - Kartsev-Venediktov Design Bureau (OKB-520) - KhPZ Factory No. 183 in Kharkiv/Malyshev Factory - Mikhail Kalashnikov - Soviet Opytnoye Konstruktorskoye Buros (OKBs) - Eastern bloc - Tupolev Tu-160- 9M14 Malyutka - RPG-7 - R-7 ICBM - Tupolev Tu-95 - M73 Spetsnaz Boot - M73 Romanian helmet
The Council for Mutual Economic

Assistance (ComEcom) nations

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance - SovRoms - Mongolian People's Republic - Cuba - Vietnam - North Vietnam - German Democratic Republic- Czech Socialist Republic - USSR - Mongolian People's Republic - People's Republic of Poland - Hungarian People's Republic - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - People's Republic of Bulgaria - Polish People's Republic - People's Republic of Albania (left) - ‎Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (never fully joined) - Romanian Popular Republic -Romanian People's Republic - North Korea (de facto, but not [de jure to avoid worrying the PRC) - Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (wanted to join, but never got round to doing so) - People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (de facto, but not de jure) - Eastern bloc
Other Soviet allies. People's Republic of the Congo - People's Republic of Benin – Republic of Seychelles – Democratic Republic of Madagascar - Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia - People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia - People's Revolutionary Government (Grenada) - Junta of National Reconstruction (Nicaragua) - Libyan Arab Jamahiriya - People's Democratic Republic of Algeria - Jamaica - Grenada
The ones with nukes USSR - Cuba (gave them up) - Cuban Missile Crisis - Tupolev Tu-160 - R-7 ICBM - Tupolev Tu-95 - People's Republic of China - Novaya Zemlya Archipelago - Tsar Bomba
The inter-communist splits Sino-Soviet Split - USSR -Tankie Communists - Zhou Enlai - Nikita Khrushchev - Mao Zedong - Pol Pot - People's Republic of China - Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) - People's Republic of Albania - The inter-communist splits
The end of it Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 - Fall of the Berlin wall - Soviet "Era of Stagnation" - Dissolution of the Soviet Union - Singing Revolution - Baltic Republics of the Soviet Union- The political dissolution of the Soviet Union and why it broke up afterwards - Soviet war in Afghanistan - Chernobyl disaster -Glasnost - Perestroika
Economics Agrokomerc Affair - Sakhalin Island - Life under communism - Food cards- Collective farms- Yugoslavian Agricoles - Political Committee of the Communist Party of China - Soviet political organs - Soviet Social Apparatus - The purveyors of crappy Cold War era Easter Block cars - Mirny Diamond Mine - Magnitogorsk - Virgin Lands campaign - Soviet Opytnoye Konstruktorskoye Buros (OKBs) - The Agrokomerc Affair - Wuxi (diode) Factory 742 - Jiangnan Radio Factory - Agrokomerc - Kartsev-Venediktov Design Bureau (OKB-520) - KhPZ Factory No. 183 in Kharkiv/Malyshev Factory- Eastern bloc - Gorki Auto Plant - GAZ Group Holding - ZiL - SovRom
Politics and Geo-politics Sakhalin Island - Stalin Monument (Budapest)‎‎ - Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Khrushchev Thaw- Tito–Stalin Split‎-‎‎ Life under communism - Hungarian Revolution of 1956 - Cold War - Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia - Soviet "Era of Stagnation" - Soviet 'oligophrenics' and 'oligophrenia' - Soviet political organs - Soviet Social Apparatus - Russian and Soviet Leaders between 1917 and 2018 - Stalin's purges and ethnic cleansing- Closed Soviet locations - Gulags - Berlin Wall - Détente - Sino-Soviet Split - Brezhnev Doctrine - Stalin's cult of personality - De-Stalinisation -Glasnost - Perestroika - Kuril Islands - Rybachy Peninsula - Kaliningrad Oblast - Eastern bloc - The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union - 1952 Egyptian revolution -Sandinistas - Cuban Revolution - Czechoslovak coup d'état of 1948 - Yugoslavia's Informbiro Period
Technology and outer space Sputnik 1 - Soviet Space Program - Mirny Diamond Mine - Magnitogorsk- Soviet Space Program - space race - Virgin Lands campaign - Tatra trams T3 and T3R.P trams - Sputnik crisis - M62 locomotive - TEP80 locomotive -Soviet MSI nMOS chip - Soviet Ice Breaker Lenin - Chernobyl disaster - AK-47\Kalashnikov assault rifle -Soviet Opytnoye Konstruktorskoye Buros (OKBs)- The Space Race - Mikhail Kalashnikov - Yuri Gagarin - Vostok rocket-Soyuz rocket - Baikonur Cosmodrome - Plesetsk Cosmodrome - Zenit 2 - Tupolev Tu-160 - R-7 ICBM - Phobos 1 - Tsar Bomba
People Stalin Monument (Budapest)‎‎ - Vladimir Lenin - Leonid Brezhnev - Yury Andropov - Horloogiyn Choybalsan - Mikhail Kalashnikov - Yuri Gagarin - Nikita Khrushchev - Joseph Stalin - Stalin's cult of personality - De-Stalinisation - Mikhail Gorbachev - Ho Chi Minh - Fidel Castro - Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej - Mohammad Najibullah - Maurice Bishop - Zhou Enlai - Salvador Allende - Dr. Kwame Nkrumah - Gamal Abdel Nasser - Michael Manley - Maurice Bishop - Yury Andropov - Vladimir Lenin - Mikhail Gorbachev - Leonid Brezhnev - Lavrentiy Beria- Joseph Stalin - Georgy Zhukov - Fidel Castro - Georgy Malenkov
Important places Sakhalin island - Moscow - Nakhodka Port - Gorki Auto Plant - Vladivostok Navel base - Murmansk Navel base - Arkangelsk Navel base - Kalinningrad Navel base - Sevastopol Navel base - Kazan Higher Tank Command School and related tank factory -Burevestnik Airport- Jüterbog Airfield - Topoľčany Army Barracks and bunker system - Kuril Islands - Berlin Wall - Mirny Diamond Mine - Magnitogorsk - Rybachy Peninsula - St. Petersburg‎ - Closed Soviet locations - Kaliningrad Oblast - Wuxi (diode) Factory 742 - Jiangnan Radio Factory - Agrokomerc -KhPZ Factory No. 183 in Kharkiv/Malyshev Factory - Wuxi (diode) Factory 742 - Jiangnan Radio Factory - Agrokomerc - Baikonur Cosmodrome - Plesetsk Cosmodrome - Novaya Zemlya Archipelago
Systems of state repression What is a police state? - Státní bezpečnost/Štátna bezpečnosť (StB/ŠtB) - Committee for State Security (KGB) - Glavnoye razvedyvatel'noye upravleniye (GRU) - Stasi - Securitate -Gulag - Political disappearances - Berlin Wall - A Bulgarian umbrella assassination – Komitet za dǎržavna sigurnost (CSS) - Censorship East Germany - Communist Party of the Soviet Union - The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
The political heretics who were

not really true communists

People's Republic of Albania (criminal dictatorship) - Mao Zedong (mad) - Enver Hoxha (a mafia don) - Pol Pot (evil) - Nicolae Ceauşescu (evil) - Democratic Kampuchea (evil) - Khmer Rouge (evil) - The PRC (evil then state capitalist) - Communist Party of Kampuchea (evil) - The Shining Path (evil) - North Korea (despotism)- Red Brigades (in Italy) (criminal syndicate) - Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) (criminal syndicate) - Daniel Ortega (evil) - Kim Il-Sung (despot) - People's Republic of China (evil then state capitalist) - Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia (evil) - People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (evil) - Somali Democratic Republic (Black nationalist) – People's Republic of Mozambique (Black nationalist) – People's Republic of Angola (criminal syndicate) - People's Revolutionary Government (Grenada) (not fully communist, corrupt and liked the UK as much as they did Cuba) - Junta of National Reconstruction (Nicaragua) (evil) - Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (evil) - People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (not fully communist and corrupt) - Grenada (not fully communist and liked the UK as much as they did Cuba) - Jamaica (not fully communist and liked the UK as much as they did Cuba) - Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (not fully communist) - Michael Manley (not fully communist and liked the UK as much as they did Cuba) - Maurice Bishop (not fully communist, hated Whites, corrupt and liked fawning to the UK as much as he did Cuba) - Hudson Austin (not fully communist, anti-White racist, corrupt and was a full on puppet of Cuba) - Bernard Corad (not fully communist, anti-White racist, corrupt and was a full on puppet of Cuba) - Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (evil) - Mengistu Haile Mariam (despot)
The founding nations Russian SFSR - Ukrainian SSR - Byelorussian SSR - Transcaucasian SFSR - Bukharan People's Soviet Republic - Khorezm People's Soviet Republic - Tashkent Soviet -Communist Party of the Soviet Union - The Bolshevik Party
Bolshevik\Soviet annexations Estonia (annexed) - Latvia (annexed) - Lithuania (annexed) - Kaliningrad Oblast (annexed) - Finnish Civil War (the Reds lost) - Mongolian People's Republic (annexation failed) - The Far Eastern Republic (annexed) - Far Eastern Republic (annexed) - Tuvan People's Republic (annexed) - Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (annexed) - State of Buryat-Mongolia (annexed) - Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (annexed) - Kronstadt Republic (crushed) - Soviet Socialist Republic of Belarus (SSRB) (crushed)- The Belarusian People's Republic (BNR) (crushed)
Other former European, Central Asian

and Iranian puppet or client states

Litbell - Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (LSSR) - Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic - Soviet Republic of Naissaar - Latvian SSR of 1919-1920 - The Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR) - Bolshavik Russia - Lemko-Rusyn People's Republic- West Ukrainian People's Republic - Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic - Hungarian Soviet Republic - People's State of Bavaria - Bavarian Soviet Republic - The Soviet Republic of Odessa - Kiev called the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR) - Petrograd Soviet - East Turkestan Republic (ETR) - Persian Socialist Soviet Republic - Soviet Republic of Gilan - Azerbaijan People's Government - Republic of Mahabad (1946) - Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Military and wars Sputnik 1- When is not a Yugo to a Yugo? - Vietnam War - 1950–1953 Korean War - Soviet medals‎ - Colombian conflict (1964–present) - Movimiento de Liberación Nacional-Tupamaros - Peruvian conflict - Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement - Cambodian genocide - The WW2 Jewish Holocaust and Roma Porajmos in the Baltic states - Colombian conflict (1964–present) - Peruvian conflict - 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution - Sandinistas - Guerrilla Army of the Poor - Viet Cong - Pathet Lao - New Jewel Movement - bomber gap - missile gap - arms race - submarine race - Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov- Whiskey-class submarine -Red Army - Red Navy- Red Air Force - Soviet Army - Soviet Navy - Soviet Air Force - Soviet Afghan War - People's Liberation Army (of China) - 1927–1949 Chinese Civil War
Corruption The fish case - The Sochi-Krasnodar case
Other stuff Russian Civil War (1917–1922) - Life under communism - Sputnik 1- Khrushchyovka - When is not a Yugo to a Yugo? - The purveyors of crappy Cold War era Easter Block cars- Family in the Soviet Union - Radio Moscow - Tatra trams T3 and T3R.P trams - M62 locomotive - TEP80 locomotive - Stalin's cult of personality - De-Stalinisation - UAZ 450 'Bukhanka' - Soviet medals‎ - The Agrokomerc Affair - The Jewish Holocaust and Roma Porajmos in the Baltic states - "Reds under the bed" - Stalin's purges and ethnic cleansing -The Holodomor - Soviet 'oligophrenics' and 'oligophrenia' - New Jewel Movement - The 'false' Cold War theory - All the Communist countries during the Cold War - People's Liberation Army (of China) - People's Republic of China - GAZ Group Holding -Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) - Polish United Workers' Party

Links[]

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_rulers
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_leaders_of_the_Russian_SFSR
  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_government_of_Russia
  4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_leaders_of_the_Soviet_Union
  5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_Russia
  6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDiwTD70f8o
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