Although communism does not believe in 1 leader and all desisions are to be group desisions there were different leading figures.
When the provisional government were overthrown by the Bolshevik party Vladimir Lenin was the real leader of the party. However when Lenin died in 1924 the battle to be the leading figure within the Bolshevik party also known as the power struggle ended out with Joseph Stalin the General Secetary to be the leading figure however realistically he was a dictator.
Premier Nikita Khrushchev was the leader of the USSR in 1962.
Joseph Stalin was the leader of the USSR according to my Social Studies textbook.
USSR
WHO WAS THE LEADER OF THE USSR WHEN YURI GAGARIN BECAME THE FIRST MAN TO GO INTO SPACE
Stalin
The USSR
Vladimir Lenin
Yes, Mikhail Gorbachev was the last Communist leader of the USSR. Moreover, Gorbachev was the last leader of the USSR, period, as the USSR ceased to exist in 1991 while Gorbachev was in power - and thanks in no small part to Gorbachev's reforms of the late 1980s.
President Gorbachev was the leader who oversaw the collapse of the USSR.
Stalin was not an emperor and did not have an empire. He was the leader for many years of the USSR
The Soviet Union or USSR
joseph stalin