Timeline

ImageSize = width:160 height:550
PlotArea = width:50 height:530 left:50 bottom:10
DateFormat = yyyy
Period = from:1919 till:1991
TimeAxis = orientation:vertical
ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:1920
# there is no automatic collision detection,
# so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap
Define $dx = 25 # shift text to right side of bar
PlotData=
 bar:Leaders color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:S
 from:start till:1922 shift:($dx,15) text:Vladimir~Ilyich~[[Lenin]]
 from:1922 till:1953 shift:($dx,5) text:[[Stalin|Josef Stalin]]
 from:1953 till:1964 shift:($dx,5) text:Nikita~[[Khrushchev]]
 from:1964 till:1982 shift:($dx,5) text:Leonid~[[Brezhnev]]
 from:1982 till:1984 shift:($dx,-12) text:Yuri~[[Andropov]]
 from:1984 till:1985 shift:($dx,4) text:Konstantin~[[Chernenko]] fontsize:XS
 from:1985 till:end shift:($dx,10) text:Mikhail~[[Gorbachev]]