Question: Who was in charge of russia during the cold war?

Disambiguated questions and answers:
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question: Who was in charge of Russia at the beginning of the Cold War?
short_answers: Joseph Stalin
context: Stalin's early policies pushed for rapid industrialisation, nationalisation of private industry and the collectivisation of private plots created under Lenin's New Economic Policy. As leader of the Politburo, Stalin consolidated near-absolute power by 1938 after the Great Purge, a series of campaigns of political murder, repression and persecution. Nazi German troops invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, but by December the Soviet Army managed to stop the attack just shy of Moscow. On Stalin's orders, the Soviet Union launched a counter-attack on Nazi Germany which finally succeeded in 1945. Stalin died in March 1953 and his death triggered a power struggle in which Nikita Khrushchev after several years emerged victorious against Georgy Malenkov.
question: Who was in charge of Russia from September 14, 1953
to October 14, 1964?
short_answers: Nikita Khrushchev
wikipage: List of leaders of the Soviet Union
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question: Who was in charge of Russia from October 14, 1964 - November 10, 1982?
short_answers: Leonid Brezhnev
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question: Who was in charge of Russia from November 10, 1982 - February 9, 1984?
short_answers: Yuri Andropov
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question: Who was in charge of Russia from February 9, 1984 - March 10, 1985?
short_answers: Konstantin Chernenko
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question: Who was in charge of Russia at the end of the Cold War?
short_answers: Mikhail Gorbachev

Long-form answers:
knowledge: content: During its sixty-nine-year history, the Soviet Union usually had a de facto leader who would not necessarily be head of state but would lead while holding an office such as premier or general secretary.
wikipage: List of leaders of the Soviet Union
content: Following Joseph Stalin's consolidation of power in the 1920s,[3] the post of the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party became synonymous with leader of the Soviet Union,[4] because the post controlled both the Communist Party and the Soviet government[3] both indirectly via party membership and via the tradition of a single person holding two highest posts in the party and in the government.
wikipage: List of leaders of the Soviet Union
long_answer: During its sixty-nine-year history, the Soviet Union usually had a de facto leader who would not necessarily be head of state but would lead while holding an office such as premier or general secretary. Following Joseph Stalin's consolidation of power in the 1920s, the post of the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party became synonymous with leader of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin was in charge of Russia at the beginning of the Cold War. Nikita Khrushchev was in charge of Russia from September 14, 1953 to October 14, 1964. Leonid Brezhnev was in charge of Russia from October 14, 1964 - November 10, 1982. Yuri Andropov was in charge of Russia from November 10, 1982 - February 9, 1984. Konstantin Chernenko was in charge of Russia from February 9, 1984 - March 10, 1985. After the Cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev was in charge of Russia.