<Tr> <Th> Georgy Malenkov (1902--1988) </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> 5 March 1953 ↓ 8 February 1955 </Td> <Td> 19th Congress </Td> <Td> Succeeded to all of Stalin's titles, but was forced to resign most of them within a month . Malenkov, through the office of Premier, was locked in a power struggle against Khrushchev . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Nikita Khrushchev (1894--1971) </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> 8 February 1955 ↓ 14 October 1964 </Td> <Td> 20th--22nd Congress </Td> <Td> Served as the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Soviet Union (from September 1953) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 27 March 1958 to 14 October 1964 . While vacationing in Abkhazia, Khrushchev was called by Leonid Brezhnev to return to Moscow for a special meeting of the Presidium, to be held on 13 October 1964 . There, at the most fiery session since the so - called "anti-party group" crisis of 1957, he was fired from all his posts . He was largely left in peace in retirement, but was made a "non-person" to the extent that his name was removed even from the thirty - volume Soviet Encyclopedia . He died in 1971 . He was seen overseas as a reformer of a "petrified structure" and described his main contribution as removing the fear that Stalin had brought, but many of his reforms were later reversed . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Leonid Brezhnev (1906--1982) </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> 14 October 1964 ↓ 10 November 1982 † </Td> <Td> 23rd--26th Congress </Td> <Td> Served as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, was later renamed General Secretary, and was co-equal with premier Alexei Kosygin until the 1970s . To consolidate his power he later assumed the title of Chairman of the Presidium . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Yuri Andropov (1914--1984) </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> 12 November 1982 ↓ 9 February 1984 † </Td> <Td>--</Td> <Td> General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Presidium from 16 June 1983 until 9 February 1984 . </Td> </Tr>

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