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Upon death, resignation, or removal from office of an incumbent president, the Vice President of the Soviet Union would assume the office, though the Soviet Union dissolved before this was actually tested. [9] After the failed coup in August 1991, the vice president was replaced by an elected member of the State Council of the Soviet Union. [10]
The Premier of the Soviet Union (Russian: Глава Правительства СССР) was the head of government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). From 1923 to 1946, the name of the office was Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, and from 1946 to 1991 its name was Chairman of the Council of Ministers.
Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov [b] (8 January 1902 [O.S. 26 December 1901] [1] – 14 January 1988) [2] was a Soviet politician who briefly succeeded Joseph Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union after his death in March 1953. After one week, Malenkov was forced to give up control of the party apparatus, but continued to serve as Premier of the ...
The Inner Circle is a 1991 drama film by Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky, telling the story of Joseph Stalin's private projectionist and KGB officer Ivan Sanchin (real name Alex Ganchin) between 1939 and 1953, the year Stalin died.
Took office Left office Duration 1 Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets (1922–1938) Mikhail Kalinin (1875–1946) [13] 30 December 1922 12 January 1938 15 years, 13 days 1st–8th Convocation: Chairmen of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1938–1989) Mikhail Kalinin (1875–1946) [13] 17 January 1938 19 ...
After Stalin died in March 1953, he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and Georgy Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union. However the central figure in the immediate post-Stalin period was the former head of the state security apparatus, Lavrentiy Beria.
Gorbachev was the third out of eight Soviet leaders, after Malenkov and Khrushchev, not to die in office. [ 249 ] [ 250 ] The following day, 26 December, the Soviet of the Republics , the upper house of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, voted the country out of existence. [ 251 ]
In office 3 May 1939 – 4 March 1949: Premier: Himself (1939–1941) Joseph Stalin (1941–1949) Preceded by: Maxim Litvinov: Succeeded by: Andrey Vyshinsky: First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union [b] In office 16 August 1942 – 29 June 1957: Premier