Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He was born in 1879.
Brezhnev became the Soviet leader after Khruschev.
Mikhail Gorbachev became the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thus the leader of the USSR, in 1985.
The result of the rise to power of Nikita Khrushchev was he became the leader of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. Nikita Khrushchev was leader of the Soviet Union in the early to mid-1960s.
Leonid Brezhnev
He was Secretary-general of the Soviet Union's Communist party, which made him the effective leader of the Soviet Union. He was in power between 1955 and 1964.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was the seventh and last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until 1991.
Leonid Brezhnev
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
Vladimir Lenin Lenin was not the leader of the "Soviet party." There was no such thing as a "Soviet party." A "soviet" is not a political party at all. The word "soviet" means "council" and referred to the groups that arose in many Russian cities and towns comprised of representatives, or deputies, of workers, peasants and soldiers. Most of these soviets had the support of the people in their cities and towns and had virtual governmental authority in many of them. The members of the soviets would be members of the various political parties, such as the Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Kadets and others. Lenin was head of the Bolshevik Party and "soviet" is not just another word for Bolshevik or Communist.
The premier of the USSR and leader of the Communist party was Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), who was in power from 1953 to 1964.
---- Leonoid Brezhnev was the new leader of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. (1964) He replaced Nikita Khrushchev. As the new leader, he replaced many of Khrushchev's policies to expand the freedoms of the ordinary Soviet citizen and to allow critcism of the Soviet system. He died in 1982.