Leader
Secretary General of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik)
Josif V. STALIN (1929-March 1953)

Head of Secret Police / Security Services (NKVD)
Nikolai I. Yezhov (1936-1938 shot)
Lavrenty P. Beria (1938-June 1953 shot)

Note: Beria remained in overall control while Merkulov (1941, 1943-1946; shot 1953), Abakumov (1946-1951; shot 1954) and Ignatyev (1951-1953) dealt specifically with security issues

People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs / Foreign Minister
Maxim Litvinov (//1939)
Vyachelav Molotov (//)
Andrei Ya. Vyshinsky

DOCUMENTS
1930s — 10 entries; 1940s — 3 entries; 1950s — 1 entry

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Leader
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)
Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1958-1964)

Nikita S. KHRUSHCHEV (14 September 1953 to 14 October 1964; d. 1971)

Head of KGB
Chairman of the Committee for State Security

Ivan A. Serov (1954-1958)
Alexander N. Shelepin (1958-1961)
Vladimir Ye. Semichastny (1961-1967)

Foreign Minister
Gromyko

Central Committee International Department

DOCUMENTS
1950s — 13 entries; 1960s — 9 entries

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Leader
Leonid I. BREZHNEV (1964-1982)

DOCUMENTS
1960s — 59 entries