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After the Russian Revolution, Lenin became leader of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) from 1917 and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1922 until his death.
Gorbachev became first and last president of the Union. [2] His tenure was marked by the legal and political confrontation with Russia and other republics of the USSR which eventually led to their full independence in late 1991.
After in 1955, Georgy Malenkov was deposed from all positions in the government and exiled, Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) became the USSR’s leader.
18 sty 2023 · In 1982, Andropov formally succeeded Brezhnev as General Secretary of the Soviet Union: he was totally incapable of reinvigorating or saving the increasingly worrying state of the Soviet economy, and further escalated Cold War tensions with the US. Andropov died in February 1984, 15 months after formally being appointed leader.
8 maj 2015 · In August 1999, he was appointed Prime Minister. On December 31, 1999, he became acting President. On March 26, 2000, he was elected President of Russia and was inaugurated on May 7, 2000. On March 14, 2004, he was elected President of Russia for the second term.
In May 2004, Chechen separatists assassinated Akhmad Kadyrov, the pro-Russia Chechen leader who became the president of Chechnya 8 months earlier after an election conducted by Russian authorities. On 24 August 2004, two Russian aircraft were bombed .
19 mar 2019 · With his introduction of Western European culture, Russia becomes a world power. 1762: Russia’s longest-ruling female leader, Catherine II, or Catherine the Great, takes power in a bloodless coup...
