Can you name the top leaders of Russia/USSR since the Russian Revolution (1917-present)?

Year(s)	Leader	Title
1917-1924		Chairman: Council of People's Commissars
1922-1953		General Secretary of the Central Committee
1953-1964		First Secretary of the Central Committee
1964-1982		First/General Secretary of the Central Committee
1982-1984		General Secretary of the Central Committee
1984-1985		General Secretary of the Central Committee
1985-1991		General Secretary of the Central Committee
1991-1999		President of Russia
1999-2008		President of Russia
2008-present		President of Russia

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Russian Leaders (since 1917) Quiz

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Published: October 11th, 2008
Category: History
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Tags: russian, leader, 1917, russia, ussr, revolution, Russian Revolution, world history pack, title, top

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	springmom:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 15:37 GMT	8 points
	Yay! Got 'em all....first time! I would be so ashamed to get one wrong....I'm a history teacher!

	AdmiralMaxtreme:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 16:06 GMT	5 points
	I can never remember Andropov. And Dmitry Medvedev hardly counts as a President of Russia; everyone knows that Putin still controls the government.

	davidr:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 16:42 GMT	29 points
	It's easy to remember Andropov because he dropped off so quickly. cough And Medvedev is indubitably president; the question is whether he is a "leader of Russia". ;-)

	Bretzky:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 17:05 GMT	17 points
	I should be embarrassed to admit it, but I never have any trouble remembering Andropov because, in an episode of "Silver Spoons," Rickey Schroeder had a dream that he was President and he told Yuri to go drop off a cliff. I have no logical reason why I should remember that, but I do.

	CottonNero:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 17:52 GMT	10 points
	Brett: I only remember Chernenko from a song by the Capitol Steps about how it was hard to rhyme "Yeltsin". (Their end result: "pull our belts in".)

	Uhlan:	Nov 24th, 2008 at 18:21 GMT	-1 points
	Maybe Andropov and Chernenko upset Stalin... I wouldn't be comfortable even knowing he was dead.

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	emilkr:	Jan 14th, 2009 at 22:50 GMT	4 points
	@Paul: Indeed there are other ways of spelling his name and also Gorbachev's which should be allowed in this quiz.

	LB1973:	Jan 23rd, 2009 at 09:48 GMT	7 points
	What about Yanayev as a bonus answer acting president during the coup of 1991

	isaac:	Jan 24th, 2009 at 05:34 GMT	3 points
	I only had to try Krushchev and Brezhnev's names about 10 times each before they were accepted. Other than that, I'm a little surprised I got them all.

	Learned_Hand:	Jan 29th, 2009 at 19:12 GMT	0 points
	shouldn't "Kruschev" be an acceptable spelling for Nikita Khrushchev's name?

	ZeppoMarxist:	Jan 30th, 2009 at 04:10 GMT	5 points
	Learned Hand - Why would it be? That's not his name. I missed the two post-1982/pre-1985 fellows. I knew I would.

	Uhlan:	Feb 6th, 2009 at 20:25 GMT	2 points
	@ Anthony; these are all anglicised, Latin script versions of Russian Cyrillic names.

	calvin coolidge:	Feb 21st, 2009 at 07:00 GMT	5 points
	Malentov was General Secretary between Stalin and Nikita

	Rzeziol:	Mar 7th, 2009 at 19:13 GMT	1 point
	Miss Brezhnev and Medvedev because I was too lazy to check on wiki how do you guys spell it in English. Totally forgot Andropov's name, though :/

	chrsksk:	Mar 9th, 2009 at 22:51 GMT	0 points
	Missed Andropov. I'm choosing to write that off as a footnote.

	LEE:	Jun 1st, 2009 at 12:55 GMT	2 points
	fun quiz. i had some trouble with spelling but I got them all on the first go.

	HiddenPalace:	Jun 14th, 2009 at 22:34 GMT	1 point
	Spelling is a bugger. That being said I got 7/10. The least well known three, I didn't get. Weird how there were three deaths of the leaders within just a couple of years before Gorby got put in.

	micah:	Jun 25th, 2009 at 03:38 GMT	4 points
	It's not a coincidence--basically, people were being promoted based solely on seniority, which led to them all dying of old age immediately afterward.

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Aug 4th, 2009 at 03:06 GMT	3 points
	Poor Medvedev, he's the current president and less than 50% of people know him...

	Vivitarbebb:	Dec 11th, 2009 at 22:52 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz, but I agree on Malentov. He should be included.

	youisfunny:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 03:54 GMT	-2 points
	Beria?

	Spelvout:	Jan 28th, 2010 at 18:40 GMT	1 point
	Got all but the least guessed one. Nice quiz, had a lot of difficulties with the spelling though. In Dutch, their names are spelled differently.

	wasmachien:	Jan 29th, 2010 at 16:59 GMT	4 points
	It's Malenkov, not Malentov. But yeah, he probably should be in here.

	Usman Ahmad:	Mar 9th, 2010 at 01:15 GMT	-3 points
	I knew 8/10 but I couldn't figure out their spelling....uber gay!

	treelol:	Apr 4th, 2010 at 01:41 GMT	-2 points
	Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Yeltsin, Putin, Medvedev meh, I got the important ones

	Chipmunkdavis:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 09:54 GMT	3 points
	How many of these were actually "Russian"? I know Stalin for one, was actually from Georgia. Any idea about the rest of them?

	mukaltin:	Jul 2nd, 2010 at 01:01 GMT	2 points
	Chipmunkdavis: Khruschyov and Gorbachyov were Ukrainians, Lenin was Finno-Ugric of some sort, not sure about the others :)

	Thackeray798:	Jul 26th, 2010 at 04:11 GMT	2 points
	There was Kosygin with Brezhnev.

	Sjoerd:	Aug 16th, 2010 at 22:20 GMT	3 points
	those romanisations of the Cyrillic alphabet are always bugging me. For instance, in Dutch Khrushchev is written Chroesjtsjov, while it is the same Russian name. Let's just write it Хрущёв from now on.

	dpenn89:	Sep 5th, 2010 at 05:36 GMT	1 point
	How about Alexander Kerensky? Prime minister between the February and October revolutions. Or do you mean post-Communist rulers?

	AutonomusPlebian:	Dec 21st, 2010 at 12:12 GMT	1 point
	This title should ask for leaders after October 1917, as Prince Lvov and Alexander Kerensky were both Prime Ministers between the Tsar abdicating in February 1917 and the Bolsheviks taking over in October 1917

	Tobsodan:	Feb 15th, 2011 at 15:27 GMT	2 points
	Knowing Chroetsjov, Breznjev and Gorbatsjov in Dutch, I just couldn't get the English spelling right. But, so we learn every day!

	GodmodeEngaged:	Jul 4th, 2011 at 16:35 GMT	1 point
	what about Kerensky as a bonus? he ran the provisional government while lenin was in power?

	letsdoit4johnny1:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 04:05 GMT	1 point
	Chernenko was Ukrainian, as was Brezhnev.

	Happ_Hazzard:	Jul 14th, 2011 at 21:46 GMT	-1 points
	Putin is da man. Wish we had him as pres instead of Obama.

	danp:	Aug 13th, 2011 at 21:03 GMT	1 point
	Mr Lenin - awaken the boy Mr Stalin - bisexual epoch Khrushchev - self love in his mirrors Brezhnev - married into group sex Gorbachev - celibate self importance Yeltsin - failure in his own impotence

	volkstraum:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 21:24 GMT	3 points
	bald reformer, then hairy tyrant, bald reformer, then hairy tyrant, bald reformer, then hairy tyrant,

	sashikers:	Dec 6th, 2011 at 12:32 GMT	1 point
	missed Chernenko but who gives a ****