PARTY LEADER
Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)
Mikhail S. GORBACHEV (March 1985 to August 1991)
PRESIDENT of the USSR
Mikhail S. GORBACHEV (March 1990 to 19 August 1991)
Head of KGB
Victor M. Chebrikov (1982-1988)
Vladimir A. Kryuchkov (1988-1991)
Vadim V. Bakatin (August-December 1991)
Foreign Minister
Gromyko
Shevardnadze
Chairman (President) of RSFSR
Boris N. Yeltsin (June-December 1991)
PRESIDENT of the RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Boris N. Yeltsin (1992-1999)
DOCUMENTS
1980s — // entries; 1990s — // entries