Question by King of Y!A: How did leaders of the USSR come to power?
Did the people have elections? Did a council have elections?
If a council, who picked who was on the council?
Follow up question: How would one be on the communist party?
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Answer by Satellite
The communist party selected the leader.
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MagpieRhino says
lots of infighting and backstabbing- Khrushchev got power by arresting and "pressuring" beria and molotov out of contention.
brezhnev got power by an internal coup against khrushchev
Chernienko, Andropov and Gorbachev were selected by the communist party
Come and Take It says
through terrorism.