The document summarizes key communist world leaders from the 20th century including Nikita Khrushchev, the first secretary of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death who initiated the Cuban Missile Crisis; Fidel Castro, the revolutionary leader and prime minister of Cuba who initially received US support before aligning with communism; Mao Zedong, the ruler of China who established the communist party and launched economic campaigns; and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader who presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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2. NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV
First secretary of the communist
party for the Soviet Union in
1953-1954
He joined the Bolsheviks as a minor
in 1918.
He became the first secretary after
Stalin Died.
He started the missile crises and
John F. Kennedy talked him down
from it.

3. FIDEL CASTRO
• Born in Cuba, 1926.
• He ran the cuban Peoples party and he
started the cuban revolution
• He was prime minister of Cuba in 1959.
• The Us. supported him at first till they
found out that he supported communism.
• Cuba helped the USSR.

4. MAO ZEDONG
•1893-1976
•A ruler in China
•He established
•In 1869 chairman of the Ninth
Communist Party Congress.
•He launched the “Great Leap
Forward”....

5. MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
• 1931-
• 1991 President when Soviet
Union disintegrates.
• Leader of Stavropol Communist
Party
• Resined from office in 1995.