Most Soviet leaders had beliefs about human dignity, the only true Soviet dictator in every sense of the word was Joseph Stalin, who became the Soviet leader in 1924 and remained in power until his death in 1953. His purges killed tens of thousands of communists and resulted in the deaths of millions of Kulaks.
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Vladimir Lenin (Dec 30 1922- Jan 21 1924)
Mixed Power (From 1924 until 1932, power shared, however Joseph Stalin held most power from 1928 and was gaining since 1924)
Joseph Stalin (1932-Mar 5, 1953)
Nikita Khruschev (Sep 14, 1953-Oct 14, 1964)
Leonid Brezhnev (Oct 14, 1964-Nov 10, 1982)
Yuri Andropov (Nov 12, 1982-Feb 9, 1984)
Konstantin Chernenko (Feb 13, 1984-Mar 10, 1985)
Mikhail Gorbachev (Mar 11, 1985-Aug 14, 1991)
The Soviet Union was already communist during the cold war. Stalin rose and took power as a dictator and he was a communist. Therefore, under communist rule, all of Soviet Russia was forced to become communist.
Russia/ soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
Josef Stalin, Communist Dictator of the Soviet Union
Russia became first a communist state and later the largest Soviet Republic in the Soviet Union.