What is General Secretary?
'''General Secretary''' is a title often used in [[Political party|political parties]], and is usually the leader of the party. The General Secretary (sometimes called '''First Secretary''' or '''Secretary-General''') is usually the leader of the [[Secretariat]] and the [[Politburo]]. ==History== On April 3, 1922, [[Joseph Stalin]] became General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] and had the job of deciding who was a member of the party and where they went. [[Vladimir Lenin]] was ''de facto'' leader at the time. Once Lenin died, Stalin used his power to give allies jobs in the party to become more powerful than everybody else. ==Related pages== * [[List of General Secretaries of the Soviet Union]] * [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of China]] {{Politics-stub}} [[Category:General secretaries| ]]