The last general secretary of the Communist party of the Soviet Union was:

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Mikhail Gorbachev was the last general secretary of the Communist party of the Soviet Union. He served from 1985 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Ceausescu was the leader of Romania and not the Soviet Union. Zhirinovsky is a Russian politician and founder of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, but he never held the position of general secretary. Andrei Sakharov was a nuclear physicist and human rights activist, but he was not a politician or member of the Communist party. Boris Yeltsin was the first president of the Russian Federation after the collapse of the Soviet Union and did not hold the position of general secretary of the Communist party of the Soviet Union.

The Last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet