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

2. Vladimir Illyich Lenin
Formed dictatorship of the proletariat, secret police

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

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

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

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

7. Russia Today

8. Russia Today