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| Leonid Brezhnev | The leader of the Soviet Union from 1964-1982. He did not want nay reforms in the Soviet Union and threatened to intervene in any conflict if a Communist country was threatened. |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | the leader of the Soviet Union beginning in 1985 who saw the need for reform due to the poor economy and began perestida/restructuring. He allowed citizens for the first time to criticize the government.He was the first president of the Soviet Union |
| Boris Yeltsin | the president of Russia beginnin gin 1991 who was commmitted to having a market economy in Russia and ordered the brutal use of force against the Chechens |
| Vladimir Putin | the current prime minister and former president of Russia who has managed to boost Russia's economy through reform, produced a budget surplus |
| Nikita Khrushchev | leader of the Soviet Union from 1958-1964. He heightened the CCold War by sending medium range missiles to Cuba, caused the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Fidel Castro | Communist leader in Cuba since 1959 who is known for his opppressivve poliicies |
| V.I. Lenin | founder of the Russian Communist Party who helped lead the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 to overthrow the tsar to set up a government based on teh union of workers, peasants, and soldiers |
| Joseph Stalin | Communist leader of Soviet Union after the death of Lenin. Known for helping the industrial economic base at the cost of individuals. KNown for his brutal repression of anyone who opposed him and his policies. |
| Alexander Kerensky | leader of the Provisional Government set up after Tsar Nicholas II stepped down from his throun. It was not effective and he was ousted by the Soviets |
| Andrei Sakharov | develope the hydrogen bomb in the Soviet Union and later opposed the Communist policies |
| Yuri Gagarin | Russian who was the first man in space |
