Communist

13 leaders

The leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and founder of the Soviet Union. Lenin returned from exile in 1917 in a...

The Soviet dictator who transformed Russia into an industrial and military superpower at enormous human cost. ...

The last Soviet leader, who attempted to reform the USSR through glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restruct...

The founder of the Peoples Republic of China. Mao led the Communist Party to victory in the Chinese Civil War ...

The leader who transformed Chinas economy through market oriented reforms while maintaining Communist Party co...

The most powerful Chinese leader since Mao. Xi has consolidated power more than any leader since the Cultural ...

The Cuban revolutionary who established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Castro overthrew ...

The Soviet leader who attempted to de Staliize the USSR. Khrushchevs Secret Speech in 1956 denounced Stalins c...

The Soviet leader during the era of stagnation. Brezhnev governed from 1964 to 1982, the second longest tenure...

The Vietnamese communist leader who led the independence movement against France and the struggle against the ...

The Czechoslovak leader who attempted to create socialism with a human face. Dubceks Prague Spring reforms in ...

The second leader of communist Cuba and brother of Fidel. Raul Castro succeeded his brother in 2008 and gradua...

See Gorbachev main entry. He was the only Soviet leader born after the Revolution. Gorbachevs glasnost and per...