Mikhail Gorbachev became the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thus the leader of the USSR, in 1985.
mikhsil gorbschev
Nikita Khrushchev. There was a battle for succession of power in the Soviet Union (an interregnum) from 1953 (when Stalin died) to 1956 (when Khrushchev came to power).
Joseph Stalin
Yeltsin is a Russian and was the head of Russia. Not US president.
Richard Nixon was first to visit in peacetime.
mikhsil gorbschev
Joseph Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev. There was a battle for succession of power in the Soviet Union (an interregnum) from 1953 (when Stalin died) to 1956 (when Khrushchev came to power).
Joseph Stalin was a soviet red party leader which came to power and led the soviet union through a series of 15 month plans to make socialism work in what is now Russia
The official leader of the Soviet Union was Vladimir Lenin, and after a long battle with Leon Trotsky, both politically and literally, Stalin eventually gained control of the Soviet Union.
Joseph Stalin
Yeltsin is a Russian and was the head of Russia. Not US president.
Richard Nixon was first to visit in peacetime.
That was Adolf Hitler.
Mussolini :)
Simple answer Joseph Stalin
The leader of the Soviet Union who initiated destalinization was Nikita Khrushchev. He came to power after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953 and denounced Stalin's repressive policies during his famous "Secret Speech" in 1956. Khrushchev's efforts aimed to reform the Communist Party and reduce the intensity of the oppressive practices associated with Stalin's regime. This period marked significant changes in Soviet domestic and foreign policies.