There was a power struggle among the Soviet Communist Party elite to succeed Stalin after his death in 1953. Georgy Malenkov was nominally the next leader after Stalin, but only remained in sole power for about a week. The Troika (triumvirate) of Malenkov, Beria and Molotov ruled for the next six months.
Khrushchev plotted with other high ranking Party leaders to have Beria executed.
The leader who eventually emerged and held power for the next eleven years was Nikita Khrushchev.
Khrushchev cleverly out maneuvered other top Party officials, and built his own power base. He was successful and rooted out "hardliners" when he revealed Stalin's crimes against other communists and the Russian people in general. In this manner "Stalinist" style rivals for power were ousted from any positions that would hamper Khrushchev's leadership role that he created for himself.
Nobody replaced Gorbachev as the leader of the Soviet Union, as the Soviet Union ceased to exist under Gorbachev in 1991.
If you think of Russia as the successor to the Soviet Union politically, then Boris Yeltsin, the first President of Russia, is Gorbachev's political heir, but he certainly was not the leader of the Soviet Union.
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Nikita Khrushchev replaced Stalin in 1953.
Vladimir Ilytch Lenin was the leader of the Soviet Union before Stalin.
Nikita Khrushchev came out on top/
Nikita Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
Boris Yeltsin
Georgy Malenkov
Constructivism
Joseph Stalin replaced Vladimir Lenin after his death in 1924. Stalin was a dictator of the Soviet Union for more than 20 years.
he died in 1953. only reason he was replaced.
He was adverse to Stalin taking over, so he probably wanted Trotsky to come to power.
Nikita Khrushchev replaced Joseph Stalin, who died in 1953.
Georgy Malenkov
Josef Stalin replaced Lenin in 1924
Constructivism
Joseph Stalin replaced Vladimir Lenin after his death in 1924. Stalin was a dictator of the Soviet Union for more than 20 years.
Joseph or Josef Stalin did.
he died in 1953. only reason he was replaced.
He was adverse to Stalin taking over, so he probably wanted Trotsky to come to power.
Lenin's SuccessorJoseph Stalin succeeded Lenin. However, immediately after Lenin died, a troika of Stalin, Grigori Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev succeeded him until Stalin took over complete control in 1929. Stalin was also very mean and killed a lot of people the people who disagreed with him.
Josef Stalin
The Big Three: Truman, Churchill, and Stalin. Clement Attlee later replaced Churchill.
Joseph Stalin (December 1878 - March 1953) was a leader of the Soviet Union. Stalin's concept of "socialism in one country" became a central tenet of society as he replaced the New Economic Policy with a centralized command economy to launch a period of industrialization and collectivization.