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

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Can you name the top leaders of Russia/USSR since the Russian Revolution (1917-present)? Enter a leader (last names acceptable) in the box below Correctly named leaders will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order Try out the Rulers of Russia pre-1917 You have 3 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 3356 TV Shows (U.S.) 2673 Broadway Opening Lines 2640 You Do Know Jack 1163 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 1077 Same Last Name 963 And more...
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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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There are 20 comments for this game.
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	springmom:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 19:37 GMT	5 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 20:06 GMT	4 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 20:42 GMT	16 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 21:05 GMT	13 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.

	chancelikely:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 21:52 GMT	7 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 22:21 GMT	1 point
	Maybe Andropov and Chernenko upset Stalin... I wouldn't be comfortable even knowing he was dead.

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	Emil:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 02:50 GMT	2 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 13:48 GMT	4 points
	What about Yanayev as a bonus answer acting president during the coup of 1991

	isaac:	Jan 24th, 2009 at 09:34 GMT	2 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 23:12 GMT	3 points
	shouldn't "Kruschev" be an acceptable spelling for Nikita Khrushchev's name?

	ZeppoMarxist:	Jan 30th, 2009 at 08:10 GMT	1 point
	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 7th, 2009 at 00:25 GMT	2 points
	@ Anthony; these are all anglicised, Latin script versions of Russian Cyrillic names.

	calvin coolidge:	Feb 21st, 2009 at 11:00 GMT	1 point
	Malentov was General Secretary between Stalin and Nikita

	Rzeziol:	Mar 7th, 2009 at 23:13 GMT	0 points
	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 10th, 2009 at 02:51 GMT	-1 points
	Missed Andropov. I'm choosing to write that off as a footnote.

	LEE:	Jun 1st, 2009 at 16:55 GMT	2 points
	fun quiz. i had some trouble with spelling but I got them all on the first go.

	HiddenPalace:	Jun 15th, 2009 at 02:34 GMT	0 points
	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 07:38 GMT	1 point
	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 07:06 GMT	1 point
	Poor Medvedev, he's the current president and less than 50% of people know him...