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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]
Took office Left office Duration First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1944–1946) (1977–1989) 1 Nikolai Shvernik (1888–1970) 4 March 1944 25 June 1946 2 years, 113 days 1st Convocation: 2 Vasily Kuznetsov (1901–1990) [19] 7 October 1977 18 June 1986 8 years, 254 days 9th–11th Convocation: 3 Pyotr Demichev (1917 ...
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.
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.
It was led by a chairman, but the office was commonly referred to as Premier of the Soviet Union. The premier was nominated by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) at the 1st Plenary Session of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union in the aftermath of national elections.
Term of office Premier; Took office Left office Time in office 1 Chairman of the Cheka (1917–1922) Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877–1926) 20 December 1917 7 July 1918 199 days Vladimir Lenin (1917–1924) 2 Yakov Peters (1886–1938) 7 July 1918 22 August 1918 46 days 1: Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877–1926) 22 August 1918 6 February 1922 3 years, 168 days
De-Stalinization (Russian: десталинизация, romanized: destalinizatsiya) comprised a series of political reforms in the Soviet Union after the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and the thaw brought about by ascension of Nikita Khrushchev to power, [1] and his 1956 secret speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its ...
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 ...