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USSR Communist Party Secretaries
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The office was called First Secretary from 1953-66 but otherwise was known as the General Secretary.
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| 1922 - 1953 | | Joseph Stalin |
| 1953 - 1964 | | Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev |
| 1964 - 1982 | | Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev |
| 1982 - 1984 | | Yuriy Vladimirovich Andropov |
| 1984 - 1985 | | Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko |
| 1985 - 1991 | | Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev |
| 1991 | | Vladimir Ivashko |
He was elected Deputy General Secretary, another name for deputy leader, at the 28th Party Congress. Ivashko became acting General Secretary following Gorbachev's resignation, but by then the Party was politically impotent and on 29 August 1991 it was banned.
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