When the USSR ceased to exist in 1991, Russia became the obvious successor to the Soviet legacy - historically, territorially, militarily, etc. Boris Yeltsin was the President of Russia at the time, and in that sense can be considered Gorbachev's successor.
Many did, but the very first was his successor, Nikita Khrushchev.
The Communist Party held control of the Soviet Union under Lenin.
United States: North Soviet: South
Stalin
When the USSR ceased to exist in 1991, Russia became the obvious successor to the Soviet legacy - historically, territorially, militarily, etc. Boris Yeltsin was the President of Russia at the time, and in that sense can be considered Gorbachev's successor.
Many did, but the very first was his successor, Nikita Khrushchev.
The last President of the Soviet Union was Michail Gorbachev. The first President of the Russian Federation which is successor of the SU was Boris Eltsin.
The Communist Party held control of the Soviet Union under Lenin.
Mikhail Gorbachev
United States: North Soviet: South
The Soviet Block.
Stalin
Nova Net: It fell under the control of the United States and the Soviet Union It fell under the control of the United States and the soviet union.
high cost of maintaining the arms race (:
high cost of maintaining the arms race (:
United States, Russia (successor state to the Soviet Union), theUnited Kingdom, France, and China. has nuclear weapons