Immediately after Stalin's death, Georgy Malenkov became the Premier of the Soviet Union while Nikita Khrushchev became First Secretary of the Communist Party. Both were in a position to wield authority, so the two ruled together in an uneasy alliance. About 2 years later, Malenkov was forced to resign and Khrushchev was able to oust all other rivals for power and take it for himself until he was deposed.
The Soviet Union
the soviet union
Vladimir I. Lenin became the leader of the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Mikhail Gorbachev became the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thus the leader of the USSR, in 1985.
Brezhnev became the Soviet leader after Khruschev.
Nikita Khrushchev
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Brezhnev.
lenons death.
Nikita Khrushchev
Stalin was born in Georgia. He later became the leader of the Soviet Union.
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.