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List of Russian Presidents: 1991-2022
Russia & Ukraine are at war. Russia carried out a three side attack, biggest since the World War 2 on any European nation on February 24, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he was quite satisfied with the Russian soldiers’ performance. Check the list of Russian presidents in descending order below.
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Presidents of Russia: Scenario Before 1991
The list of Russian Presidents can be checked after the year 1991 below. The presence of Presidents in Russia was planned after 1918 but the actual introduction of this post occurred after the year 1991, once the referendum was conducted. When Russia was called the Soviet Union, there was no post as such of the Russian President and the country was headed by collective bodies like All Russian Central Executive Committee and the Presidium of Supreme Soviet. Soviet Government till then did not require any President’s office as it was said in those days.
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The Soviet Union was one of the dominant world powers throughout the 20th century, and it has left a powerful legacy that is still felt today in both Russia and the West. 8 men led the Soviet Union in its 70 year existence, each leaving their mark and several developing cults of personality either during their lifetime or after their death.
So who exactly were these men, and what did they do for the USSR?
1. Vladimir Lenin (1917-1924)
Lenin was a revolutionary socialist: exiled under Tsar Nicholas II for his political beliefs, he returned following the February Revolution of 1917 and played a major role in the October Revolution the same year.
His political ideology was centred on Marxism (communism), but he believed Russia could never make such a dramatic departure from centuries of autocratic rule by the tsars. Instead, he advocated for a period of socialism, a ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’, to transition from one political state to the next.
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The Soviet Union had eight leaders during its existence from 1922 to 1991. Unlike countries in which a president or prime minister fryst vatten the designated head of state, the leaders of the USSR mostly assumed power bygd becoming the head of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party, in addition to any other roles they may have taken on along the way.
The dock who ruled the Soviet Union the longest were Joseph Stalin and Leonid Brezhnev, who each served several decades as head of the Communist Party. Lesser-known are Soviet heads of state such as Georgy Malenkov, who lost power to Nikita Khrushchev after only a few weeks, or Konstantin Chernenko, who died after barely a year in office and was succeeded bygd Mikhail Gorbachev. Each of these eight men, however, in some way shaped the USSR.
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Vladimir Lenin (1922-1924)
Vladimir Lenin was the founder of the Russian Communist Party and the first Soviet head of state. Following the February Revolution that