The General Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was a
department of the
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, – TsK KPSS was the executive leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, acting between sessions of Congress. According to party statutes, the committee direct ...
that oversaw the paperwork of all Central Committee institutions.
Heads
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Nikolai Smirnov (12 September 1920 – 20 August 1922)
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Hamayak Nazaretyan (20 August 1922 – 1 November 1924)
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Lev Mekhlis
Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis (russian: Лев Заха́рович Ме́хлис; January 13, 1889 – February 13, 1953) was a Soviet politician and a prominent officer in the Red Army from 1937 to 1940. As a senior political commissar, he became ...
(1 November 1924 – 22 January 1926)
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Ivan Tovstukha (22 January 1926 – 16 July 1930)
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Alexander Poskrebyshev
Alexander Nikolaevich Poskrebyshev (russian: Александр Николаевич Поскрёбышев; 7 August 1891 – 3 January 1965) was a Soviet politician and a state and Communist Party functionary. A member of the Communist Party ...
(16 July 1930 – 15 August 1952)
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Dmitri Sukhanov (15 August 1952 – 20 February 1955)
;General Department
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Vladimir Malin (20 February 1955 – 30 August 1965)
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Konstantin Chernenko
Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko uk, Костянтин Устинович Черненко, translit=Kostiantyn Ustynovych Chernenko (24 September 1911 – 10 March 1985) was a Soviet politician and the seventh General Secretary of the Commu ...
(30 August 1965 – 12 November 1982)
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Klavdii Bogolyubov (12 November 1982 – 24 May 1985)
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Anatoly Lukyanov
Anatoly Ivanovich Lukyanov (russian: Анатолий Иванович Лукьянов, 7 May 1930 – 9 January 2019) was a Russian Communist politician who was the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR between 15 March 1990 and 4 Se ...
(24 May 1985 – 17 January 1987)
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Valery Boldin Valery Ivanovich Boldin (russian: Валерий Иванович Болдин; 1935 — 2006) was a Soviet party figure. He was a Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1988 — 1991) and Deputy of the Supreme S ...
(17 January 1987 – 3 May 1991)
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Pavel Laptev (3 May 1991 – 29 August 1991)
See also
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General Office of the Communist Party of China
A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry.
In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". OED O ...
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Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Organizations established in 1920
1920 establishments in Russia