List of members of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the 1980s
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The following is a list of members of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
List of members
| Date | Comments |
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| 3 March 1981 | Yuri Andropov Yuri Andropov Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov was a Soviet politician and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 12 November 1982 until his death fifteen months later.-Early life:... , Leonid Brezhnev Leonid Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev – 10 November 1982) was the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , presiding over the country from 1964 until his death in 1982. His eighteen-year term as General Secretary was second only to that of Joseph Stalin in... , Mikhail Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the USSR, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991... , Viktor Grishin Viktor Grishin Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin was a Soviet politician. He was a Candidate and Full Member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.Grishin was born in Serpukhov, Moscow Oblast. He served in the Red Army from 1938 until 1940... , Andrei Gromyko Andrei Gromyko Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet . Gromyko was responsible for many top decisions on Soviet foreign policy until he retired in 1987. In the West he was given the... , Andrei Kirilenko Andrei Kirilenko (politician) Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko was a Soviet statesman from the start to the end of the Cold War. In 1906, Kirilenko was born in Alexeyevka, Belgorod Oblast, Russian Empire, to a Russian working class family. He graduated in the 1920s from a local vocational school, and again in the mid-to-late 1930s... , Dinmukhamed Konayev, Arvīds Pelše Arvids Pelše Arvīds Pelše ; , Iecava, Bauska District, Latvia – May 29, 1983, Moscow) was a politician and functionary in the Soviet Union, an historian in his profession- Career :... , Grigory Romanov Grigory Romanov Grigory Vasilyevich Romanov , was a Soviet politician and member of the Politburo and Secretariat of the CPSU. In 1985, he was considered Mikhail Gorbachev's main rival in the succession struggle after the death of Konstantin Chernenko in March 1985.... , Mikhail Suslov Mikhail Suslov Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1965, and as unofficial Chief Ideologue of the Party until his death in 1982. Suslov was responsible for party democracy and the separation of power... , Nikolai Tikhonov Nikolai Tikhonov Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov was a Soviet Russian-Ukrainian statesman during the Cold War. He served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1980 to 1985, and as a First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, literally First Vice Premier, from 1976 to 1980... , Dmitriy Ustinov Dmitriy Ustinov Dmitriy Feodorovich Ustinov was Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death.-Early life:Dimitry Feodorovich Ustinov was born in a working-class family in Samara. During the civil war, when hunger became intolerable, his sick father went to Samarkand, leaving Dimitry as head... , Konstantin Chernenko Konstantin Chernenko Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko was a Soviet politician and the fifth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He led the Soviet Union from 13 February 1984 until his death thirteen months later, on 10 March 1985... and Volodymyr Shcherbytsky Volodymyr Shcherbytsky Volodymyr Vasylyovych Shcherbytsky was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician. He was a leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1972 to 1989.... elected full members; Heydar Aliyev Heydar Aliyev Heydar Alirza oglu Aliyev , also spelled as Heidar Aliev, Geidar Aliev, Haydar Aliyev, Geydar Aliyev was the third President of Azerbaijan for the New Azerbaijan Party from June 1993 to October 2003, when his son Ilham Aliyev succeeded him.From 1969 till 1982, Aliyev was also the leader of Soviet... , Pyotr Demichev Pyotr Demichev Pyotr Nilovich Demichev was a Soviet-Russian political figure; First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1986 to 1988 and Minister of Culture from 1974 to 1986.... , Tikhon Kiselyov Tikhon Kiselyov Tikhon Yakovlevich Kiselyov was a Belarusian statesman in the Soviet Union, the leader of the Communist Party of Belorussia, i.e., the de-facto leader of the Byelorussian SSR... , Vasily Kuznetsov, Boris Ponomarev Boris Ponomarev Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev was a Soviet politician, ideologist and historian, and a member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union... , Sharof Rashidov, Mikhail Solomentsev Mikhail Solomentsev Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev was a high-ranking Soviet politician. He was born near Yelets and graduated from the Leningrad Technological Institute in 1940. Solomentsev was a leading Communist party functionary in Kazakhstan in 1962–1964 and was in charge of the Rostov-on-Don obkom in 1964–1966... and Eduard Shevardnadze elected candidate members. |
| 25 January 1982 | Suslov dies. |
| 24 May 1982 | Vladimir Dolgikh Vladimir Dolgikh Vladimir Ivanovich Dolgikh was a Soviet-Russian political figure; a head of the Metallurgical Department of the Central Committee Secretariat. He was a candidate-member of the Political Bureau from 1982 to 1988.-Biographical data:... elected candidate member. |
| 10 November 1982 | Brezhnev dies. |
| 22 November 1982 | Kirilenko relieved of duties; Aliyev elected full member. |
| 11 January 1983 | Kiselyov dies. |
| 29 May 1983 | Pelše dies. |
| 15 June 1983 | Vitaly Vorotnikov Vitaly Vorotnikov Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikov was a Soviet-Russian statesman who was from 1983 to 1988 the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR, and from 1988 to 1990 Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR.-References:... elected candidate member. |
| 31 October 1983 | Rashidov dies. |
| 26 December 1983 | Vorotnikov and Solomentsev elected full members; Viktor Chebrikov Viktor Chebrikov Viktor Mikhailovich Chebrikov ) was a Soviet Union public official and security administrator and head of the KGB from December 1982 to October 1988.... elected candidate member. |
| 9 February 1984 | Andropov dies. |
| 20 December 1984 | Ustinov dies. |
| 10 March 1985 | Chernenko dies. |
| 23 April 1985 | Yegor Ligachev Yegor Ligachev Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev is a Russian politician who was a high-ranking official in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union . Originally a protege of Mikhail Gorbachev, Ligachev became a challenger to his leadership.-Early life:... , Nikolai Ryzhkov Nikolai Ryzhkov Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov was a Soviet official who became a Russian politician following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He served as the last Chairman of the Council of Ministers or Premier of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991... and Chebrikov elected full members; Sergei Sokolov Sergei Sokolov Sergei Leonidovich Sokolov is a Soviet military commander.Sokolov served in the Battle of Lake Khasan during the Soviet-Japanese Border Wars and also served on the Eastern Front during World War II.... elected candidate member. |
| 1 July 1985 | Romanov relieved of duties; Shevardnadze elected full member. |
| 15 October 1985 | Tikhonov relieved of duties; Nikolai Talyzin Nikolai Talyzin Nikolai Vladimirovich Talyzin was a Soviet statesman, economist and head of the Gosplan, or the State Planning Committee.... elected candidate member. |
| 18 February 1986 | Grishin relieved of duties; Boris Yeltsin Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.Originally a supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev, Yeltsin emerged under the perestroika reforms as one of Gorbachev's most powerful political opponents. On 29 May 1990 he was elected the chairman of... elected candidate member. |
| 6 March 1986 | Aliyev, Vorotnikov, Gorbachev, Gromyko, Lev Zaykov, Konayev, Ligachev, Ryzhkov, Solomentsev, Chebrikov, Shevardnadze and Shcherbitsky elected full members; Demichev, Dolgikh, Yeltsin, Nikolay Slyunkov Nikolay Slyunkov Nikolay Nikitich Slyunkov was a first secretary of the Byelorussian SSR during the Soviet Union.... , Sokolov, Yuri Solovyov and Talyzin elected candidate members. |
| 28 January 1987 | Konayev relieved of duties; Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev was a Soviet politician and historian who was a Soviet governmental official in the 1980s and a member of the Politburo and Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union... elected candidate member. |
| 26 June 1987 | Sokolov relieved of duties; Slyunkov, Yakovlev and Viktor Nikonov elected full members; Dmitry Yazov Dmitry Yazov Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov was the last Marshal of the Soviet Union to be appointed before the collapse of the Soviet Union . He was the only Marshal of the Soviet Union to be born in Siberia.... elected candidate member. |
| 21 October 1987 | Aliyev relieved of duties. |
| 14 February 1988 | Yeltsin relieved of duties; Yuri Maslyukov Yuri Maslyukov Yuri Dmitriyevich Maslyukov was a Russian politician who was in charge of the Gosplan for three years preceding the demise of the Soviet Union.-Early life:... and Georgi Razumovsky elected candidate members. |
| 30 September 1988 | Gromyko, Solomentsev, Demichev and Dolgikh relieved of duties; Vadim Medvedev elected full member; Alexandra Biryukova, Aleksandr Vlasov and Anatoly Lukyanov Anatoly Lukyanov Anatoly Ivanovich Lukyanov is a Russian Communist politician who was the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR between 15 March 1990 and 22 August 1991. One of the founders of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in 1993, he is described by its leader Gennady Zyuganov as the "Deng... elected candidate members. |
| 20 September 1989 | Nikonov, Chebrikov, Shcherbitsky, Solovyov and Talyzin relieved of duties; Vladimir Kryuchkov Vladimir Kryuchkov Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov was a former Soviet politician and Communist Party member, having been in the organization from 1944 until he was dismissed in 1991... and Maslyukov elected full members; Yevgeny Primakov Yevgeny Primakov Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov is a Russian politician and diplomat. During his long career, he served as the Russian Foreign Minister, Prime Minister of Russia, Speaker of the Soviet of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, and chief of intelligence service... and Boris Pugo elected candidate members. |
| 9 December 1989 | Vladimir Ivashko Vladimir Ivashko Vladimir Antonovich Ivashko , was briefly the acting General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the period from 24 August 1991 to 29 August 1991. On 24 August Mikhail Gorbachev resigned, and on 29 August the CPSU was suspended by the Supreme Soviet... elected full member. |