First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine

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The First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine was the top political leader of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, effectively serving as its de facto head of state within the Soviet Union’s one-party system.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf leadership position
political office
appliesToJurisdiction Soviet Ukraine
surface form: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
authorityOver Communist Party of Ukraine
surface form: Communist Party of Ukraine Central Committee

party apparatus in the Ukrainian SSR
belongsTo republic-level first secretary positions in the USSR
comparablePosition First Secretary of the Communist Party of Belarus
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Russia
controls implementation of CPSU policies in the Ukrainian SSR
country Soviet Ukraine
surface form: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
deFactoRole head of state of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
deJureHeadOfStateSeparateFrom Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR
dominantParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
economicSystemContext planned economy
governingStructure democratic centralism
headquartersLocation Kyiv NERFINISHED
hierarchicalPosition top political leader of the Ukrainian SSR
influences Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR
Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR
Council of People's Commissars
surface form: government of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
legalSystemContext socialist law
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Soviet Union
Soviet Ukraine
surface form: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
officeAbolishedWith dissolution of the Soviet Union
independence of Ukraine in 1991
officeHolderParty Communist Party of Ukraine
operatedInPoliticalSystem one-party system
partOf Communist Party of Ukraine
Soviet Union political system
politicalFunction control of ideological work and propaganda in the Ukrainian SSR
leadership of party and state policy in the Ukrainian SSR
oversight of economic planning in the Ukrainian SSR
supervision of security and internal affairs in the Ukrainian SSR
politicalIdeology Marxism–Leninism
communism
powerBasis party leadership rather than constitutional office
region Ukraine
selectionMethod appointment by higher party organs
approval by the Central Committee of the CPSU
stateFormContext socialist republic
subordinateTo General Secretary of the Communist Party
surface form: General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
successorOffice Office of the President of Ukraine
surface form: President of Ukraine
symbolicAssociation hammer and sickle
red flag of the Ukrainian SSR
timePeriod Soviet era
usedLanguage Russian
Ukrainian

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Nikita Khrushchev positionHeld First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine