Russia
9 leaders
Vladimir Lenin
The leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and founder of the Soviet Union. Lenin returned from exile in 1917 in a...
Joseph Stalin
The Soviet dictator who transformed Russia into an industrial and military superpower at enormous human cost. ...
Mikhail Gorbachev
The last Soviet leader, who attempted to reform the USSR through glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restruct...
Vladimir Putin
The Russian President who has governed Russia since 2000, alternating between president and prime minister. Pu...
Nikita Khrushchev
The Soviet leader who attempted to de Staliize the USSR. Khrushchevs Secret Speech in 1956 denounced Stalins c...
Leonid Brezhnev
The Soviet leader during the era of stagnation. Brezhnev governed from 1964 to 1982, the second longest tenure...
Boris Yeltsin
The first President of the Russian Federation. Yeltsin stood on a tank in 1991 to defy the Soviet coup attempt...
Nicholas II
The last Tsar of Russia, whose reign ended with the Russian Revolution. Nicholas II was a weak, indecisive rul...
Mikhail Gorbachev Detail
See Gorbachev main entry. He was the only Soviet leader born after the Revolution. Gorbachevs glasnost and per...