Lenin to Gorbachev By comrade Spinrad

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Lenin to Gorbachev By comrade Spinrad Soviet Leaders Lenin to Gorbachev By comrade Spinrad

Vladimir Illyich Lenin Formed dictatorship of the proletariat, secret police

Josef Stalin Killed Trotsky; modernized country with 5-year plans; WWII leader Terror and repression killed millions Established himself as absolute dictator

Nikita Khrushchev De-Stalinization, space race Hungarian uprising and Cuban Missile Crisis

Leonid Brezhnev Military build up, invasion of Afghanistan Repression of Poland’s Solidarity movement Persecuted dissidents, Brezhnev Doctrine

Mikhail Gorbachev Declining economy, attempted coup Glasnost and perestroika, ethnic unrest Resigns after stripping the Communist Party of much of its power

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