When I was a kid, Russian governance was particularly opaque. I never knew from “Chairman of the Presidium,” or “Chairman of the Central Executive Committee.” Nikita Khruschev was variously, “First Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union” (1953 – 1964) and “Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the [...]
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