General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

ramifications for the US. With the rising to power of Fidel Castro and the straying from American influence Cuba began to identify with the Soviet Union producing its own communist regime. In 1961 the US tried to overthrow the newly communist government of Cuba with the failed invasion known as the Bay of Pigs, this failure resulted in Cuba seeking help from their Soviet counterparts and with the compliance of USSR and Nikita Khrushchev the Cubans were handed missiles to defend themselves from…

were three key figures within the Politburo (the Soviet leadership’s highest policy-making government authority under the Communist Party), drafted a memorandum authorizing the use of a large contingent of Soviet troops in Afghanistan. This memorandum was quickly signed by the General Secretary of the Central Committee authorizing the use of Soviet combat troops. I contend the Soviets had a Grand Strategy, however; the decision to deploy Soviet troops was in essence the result of the three…

(NATO) petrified the Soviet Union and caused them to create their own military and economic alliance known as the Warsaw Pact. Even though it was initially referred to as a Treaty on Friendship, the Soviets became increasingly authoritative in regard to the actions of their so called allies and provided these nations with the impetus to withdraw from the Pact. Two countries that felt the sting of Russian authoritarianism were Russia and Czechoslovakia. The inability for the Soviet Union to…

Under Stalin’s control, the Soviet Union experienced a foundational transformation that served to create a new empire. The Communist Party became the core of the state, forming a government of party leaders and soviets, as well as replacing capitalist elements of the former era with the ideology of socialism. Stalin’s Soviet Union also underwent rapid industrialization, shifting the country’s chief economy from agriculture to manufacturing. Nevertheless, the push for industrialization saw…

Labour Party, then he was appointed by Lenin to Bolshevik Party Central Committee. In 1917 he was named Commissar of Nationalities after Bolshevik, then appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1922 . He soon became the dictator of the USSR, and finally got the privilege of ruling the country. Joseph Stalin did a lot to make the Soviet Union a better place. Joseph Stalin was a reliable and wise leader, he turned a third world society into a superpower by modernizing the Soviet…

evolution of the Soviet Union. The new Secretary General of the Communist Party was Nikita Khrushchev. Between 1956 and 1964 there were significant changes in the USSR, although the essence of the organization of Soviet power remained. The destalinization initiated by Nikita Khrushchev in condemnation of the wave of terror imposed by the government of former leader and in recognition of the mistakes of the government in economic matters, gave way to the beginning of a new era in the Soviet…

When asked about the end of the Cold War, many people will state that either General Secretary Gorbachev or President Ronald Reagan brought it to a close. Americans will most likely explain that Reagan’s military powers and strategic thinking had the most influential impact, while past Soviet citizens will support Gorbachev, and say he contributed to the end of the war for the better of the Soviet people. However, there are many other significant variables that had an impact and should be…

Gorbachev came to power as the head of the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, and during his time in office he introduced a series of reforms which were seen to contribute to the communist bloc’s disillusion. His primary reforms were economic and political, but the policies associated with Gorbachev were glasnost (publicity, openness), perestroika (restructuring), uskorenie (acceleration) and demokratizatsaiia (democratisation). The reforms were so destabilising as the economic reforms were…

remainder of his life. Tito’s ascension to power came in most part from tenacious support of Yugoslavians, and western nations and the soviet union. There was Yugoslavian tension between communists, led by Tito, and royalist control that made conditions optimal for a dictator’s ascent. With support of a popular communist party, and aid from the western powers and the soviet union, he gained direct power over Yugoslavia by joining his council and the former Yugoslav government. This, along with…

shaped once World War II finished. This created the fall of the Soviet Union, which is a Marxist–Leninist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991. It has been declared when the United States dropped the nuclear bombs that it wasn’t the last military performance of World War II although it was the first act of the Cold War. Although Japan was under attack, and the weapons were pointed straight to the Soviet Union. For more than 70 years, the powerful component of United…