Mikhail Gorbachev
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was the seventh and last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until 1991.
The Soviet Union does not have a leader as it ceased to exist in 1991.
The Soviet Union is not run by anyone, since it no longer exists.The Soviet Union was run by a president in the last two years of its existence: 1990-1991. Prior to that, the Soviet Union was run by the Politburo of the Communist Party. The de facto leader of the country was the General Secretary of the Communist Party.Russia, which is political heir of the Soviet Union, is run by a president today.
The Bolsheviks siezed power in October 1917 during the Russian Revolution and founded the Soviet Union.