<P> General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was an office of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) that by the late 1920s had evolved into the most powerful of the Central Committee's various secretaries . With a few exceptions, from 1929 until the union's dissolution the holder of the office was the de facto leader of the Soviet Union, because the post controlled both the CPSU and the Soviet government . Joseph Stalin elevated the office to overall command of the Communist Party and by extension the whole Soviet Union . Nikita Khrushchev renamed the post First Secretary in 1953; the change was reverted in 1966 . </P> <P> The office grew out of less powerful secretarial positions within the party: Technical Secretary (1917--1918), Chairman of the Secretariat (1918--1919), Responsible Secretary (1919--1922) (when Lenin was leader of the party of Bolsheviks). </P> <P> In its first two incarnations the office performed mostly secretarial work . The post of Responsible Secretary was then established in 1919 to perform administrative work . In 1922, the office of General Secretary followed as a purely administrative and disciplinary position, whose role was to do no more than determine party membership composition . Stalin, its first incumbent, used the principles of democratic centralism to transform his office into that of party leader, and later leader of the Soviet Union . </P> <P> In 1934, the 17th Party Congress refrained from formally re-electing Stalin as General Secretary . However, Stalin was re-elected into all other positions and remained leader of the party without diminishment . </P>

What is another name for the communist party of 1922