Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as General Secretary of the Communist Party in December of 1991. This resignation was a compilation of the Soviet Union's failing economy and pressure from citizens and others to let the Soviet Union become a democracy.
Communist Party of India - Marxist
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Thousands of people from the Communist Party died in the Great Purge.
Canada has never been officially communist. However, the Liberal Party has often taken the parts of communism that they have found more juicy (such as heavy taxes and gun control) and used them. The closest Canada has ever been to becoming communist was when Pierre Trudeau enacted the National Energy Program, which involved rich provinces (namely Alberta) redistrubuting their surpluses to poorer provinces. There are four communist parties and several communist movements in Canada. The New Democratic Party is the most powerful.
Since when? The Communist party is still a force in French politics, and has been since its foundation.
on december 25, 1991, who resigned as general secretary of the Communist party?
mikhail gorbachev
Makhail Gorbachev
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was created in 1917.
Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, a position he held from 1922 to 1952.
The General Secretary was the leader of the Communist Party and not, officially, the leader of the country. But since all those countries were run by the Communist Party, the General Secretary ran the country. In most cases, he ran it into the ground.
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party
Mikhail Gorbachev
1922
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985.