Draft:Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
	Emblem of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
	Longest serving; Mikhail Suslov; 6 December 1965 – 25 January 1982,; de facto from 14 September 1953 – 17 December 1957
	Central Committee of the Communist Party; Secretariat of the Communist Party
Style	Comrade
Member of	Politburo;
Reports to	General Secretary
Seat	Kremlin, Moscow
Appointer	Central Committee
Formation	April 1922; 102 years ago
First holder	Vyacheslav Molotov
Final holder	Vladimir Ivashko (as Deputy General Secretary)
Abolished	29 August 1991; 32 years ago

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There are 16 individuals are elected as the Party's Second Secretary, Mikhail Suslov spent the longest time in office and Vladimir Ivashko spent the shortest time in office. 8 individuals held the position in a temporary role.

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term
No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office
1		Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986)	April 1922	December 1930
2		Lazar Kaganovich (1893–1991)^[1]	December 1930	21 March 1939
3		Andrei Zhdanov (1896–1948)	21 March 1939	31 August 1948†
4		Georgy Malenkov (1902–1988)^[a]	31 August 1948	16 October 1952
5		Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971)^[b]	16 October 1952	14 September 1953
6		Mikhail Suslov (1902–1982)^[c]	14 September 1953	17 December 1957
7		Alexei Kirichenko (1908–1975)^[d]	17 December 1957	5 April 1960
8		Frol Kozlov (1908–1965)^[e]	5 April 1960	21 June 1963
9		Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982)	21 June 1963	14 October 1964
10		Nikolai Podgorny (1903–1983)^[f]^[2]	14 October 1964	6 December 1965
11		Mikhail Suslov (1902–1982)	6 December 1965	25 January 1982
–		Konstantin Chernenko (1911–1985) (acting)	25 January 1982	24 May 1982
12		Yuri Andropov (1914–1984)	24 May 1982	10 November 1982
13		Konstantin Chernenko (1911–1984)	10 November 1982	9 February 1984
13		Mikhail Gorbachev (1931–2022)^[g]	9 February 1984	10 March 1985
14		Yegor Ligachev (1920–2021)	10 March 1985	14 July 1990
Deputy General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1990–1991)
15		Vladimir Ivashko (1932–1994)	14 July 1990	29 August 1991

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^ R.W.Davies, Oleg V. Khlevniuk, and E.A.Rees (editors) (2003). The Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence, 1931–36. New Haven: Yale U.P. pp. ix–xi. ISBN 0-300-09367-5. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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[1] R.W.Davies, Oleg V. Khlevniuk, and E.A.Rees (editors) (2003). The Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence, 1931–36. New Haven: Yale U.P. pp. ix–xi. ISBN 0-300-09367-5. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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