{"slug": "general-secretary-of-the-communist-party-of-the-soviet-union", "label": "General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1048744", "qid": "Q1048744", "description": "de facto head of state of the Soviet Union and dirigent of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1982, 2022], "span_label": ["1982 CE", "2022 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "mikhail-gorbachev", "label": "Mikhail Gorbachev", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "soviet-union", "label": "Soviet Union", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "ronald-reagan", "label": "Ronald Reagan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "berlin-wall", "label": "Berlin Wall", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "baku", "label": "Baku", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nobel-peace-prize", "label": "Nobel Peace Prize", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "leonid-brezhnev", "label": "Leonid Brezhnev", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1982, "year_label": "1982 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 10", "text": "November 10 – Leonid Brezhnev, 75, Soviet politician, he served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982, and was a part of the country's collective leadership, he also served as the head of state of the Soviet Union from 1960 until 1964, and again from 1977 until 1982, under the title of the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, heart attack", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367397229", "title": "Deaths in November 1982", "revid": 1367397229, "section": "Deaths › November"}}, {"year": 1985, "year_label": "1985 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 11", "text": "March 11 – Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369963057#March", "title": "1985", "revid": 1369963057, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1987, "year_label": "1987 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 12", "text": "June 12 – During a visit to Berlin, Germany, U.S. President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372769014#June", "title": "1987", "revid": 1372769014, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1990, "year_label": "1990 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 20", "text": "January 20 – Cold War: Black January – Soviet troops occupy Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, under the state of emergency decree issued by General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, and kill over 130 protesters who were demonstrating for independence. The Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic declares its independence from the USSR.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366571855#January", "title": "1990", "revid": 1366571855, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1991, "year_label": "1991 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 16", "text": "April 16–18 – General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev begins the first ever visit of a Soviet leader to Japan, but fails to resolve the two countries' dispute over ownership of the Kuril Islands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371487470#April", "title": "1991", "revid": 1371487470, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2022, "year_label": "2022 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 30", "text": "August 30 – Mikhail Gorbachev, 91, Russian politician, final general secretary of the Communist Party (1985–1991) and president of the Soviet Union (1990–1991), Nobel Prize laureate (1990).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370431301", "title": "Deaths in August 2022", "revid": 1370431301, "section": "Deaths › August"}}]}