What is General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ?
The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (post didn’t exist in 1934-1952; named First Secretary in 1953-1965) was the title synonymous with leader of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin’s consolidation of power in the 1920s. In 1919 – 1922, the position of a Responsible Secretary (Russian: Otvetstvenny sekretar’) was held by Yakov Sverdlov, Nikolay Krestinsky, Yelena Stasova, Vyacheslav Molotov; this position did not play any important role in the Party whose de facto leader was Vladimir Lenin; however, at lower levels responsible secretaries of regional and local party committees very often were top leaders of respective committees even before Stalin’s rise to power. The position of a General Secretary was originally an administrative one when it was created in 1922 with Joseph Stalin being the first to hold the title. Once Stalin came to dominate the Politburo, the position of General Secretary became synonymous with that of party lea
