office of General Secretary of the CPSU

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party leadership position political office

The office of General Secretary of the CPSU was the top leadership post in the Soviet Union’s ruling Communist Party, effectively serving as the country’s most powerful political position for much of its existence.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
office of General Secretary of the CPSU canonical	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	party leadership position ⓘ political office ⓘ
abolishedWith	dissolution of the Soviet Union ⓘ
appliesToOrganization	Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ
associatedWithIdeology	democratic centralism ⓘ one‑party rule ⓘ
associatedWithOfficeHolder	Joseph Stalin ⓘ Konstantin Chernenko ⓘ Leonid Brezhnev ⓘ Mikhail Gorbachev ⓘ Nikita Khrushchev ⓘ Yuri Andropov ⓘ
constitutionalStatus	de facto more powerful than formal state offices such as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet ⓘ not always formally defined as head of state ⓘ
controlsBody	Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ surface form: Central Committee of the CPSU (through leadership) Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ surface form: Politburo of the CPSU (through leadership) Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee ⓘ surface form: Secretariat of the CPSU
country	Soviet Union ⓘ
deFactoHeadOf	Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ Soviet government ⓘ Soviet state ⓘ
governingPrinciple	centralized leadership of party and state ⓘ party supremacy over the state ⓘ
governmentTypeContext	one‑party socialist state ⓘ
historicalPeriodOfGreatestPower	Leonid Brezhnev ⓘ surface form: Brezhnev era Stalin era ⓘ
jurisdiction	Soviet Union ⓘ surface form: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
languageOfTitle	Russian ⓘ
linkedInstitution	Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union ⓘ KGB ⓘ Soviet armed forces ⓘ surface form: Soviet Armed Forces Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union ⓘ
politicalAlignment	Marxism–Leninism ⓘ communism ⓘ
powerBasis	control over Communist Party apparatus ⓘ control over party appointments (nomenklatura system) ⓘ leadership of the Politburo ⓘ leadership of the Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee ⓘ
roleInSystem	de facto highest political authority in the Soviet Union ⓘ
selectionMethod	elected by the Central Committee of the CPSU ⓘ
shortName	General Secretary of the Communist Party ⓘ surface form: General Secretary of the CPSU
sphereOfInfluence	Soviet armed forces ⓘ surface form: Soviet armed forces (through party and state structures) domestic policy of the Soviet Union ⓘ executive power in the Soviet Union ⓘ foreign policy of the Soviet Union ⓘ
status	most powerful political position in the Soviet Union for much of its existence ⓘ
successorConcept	leadership of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (as a separate post‑Soviet party role) ⓘ
typicalOfficeHolderTitle	General Secretary of the Communist Party ⓘ surface form: General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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Presidency of the USSR → coexistedWith → office of General Secretary of the CPSU ⓘ