I.Soviet & Russian Leaders, 1918-1995
     A.Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov (Lenin), 1918-1922
          1.Gulag begins
          2.Concentration Camps
          3.Death Camps
          4.Anti-Religious Persecution
          5.CHEKA
          6.War Communism
          7.Famine
          8.NEP
          9.Comintern
          10.Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Persia (Gilan), 
     B.Stalin, Kamenev, Trotsky scramble for power
     C.Joseph Vissarionevitch Djugashvilii (Stalin), 1922-1953
          1.Gulag expanded to entire USSR
          2.Concentration Camps
          3.Death Camps
          4.Anti-Religious Persecution
          5.GPU, NKVD
          6.Industrialization
          7.DeKulakization
          8.Famine
          9.Moscow Show Trials
          10.Cult of the Leader
          11.Comintern
          12.Popular Front
          13.Iron Curtain
          14.Berlin Airlift
          15.Georgia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Tannu-Tuva
     D.Malenkov, 1953-1954
     E.Khruschev/Bulganin/Zhukov scramble for power
     F.Nikita Khruschev, 1954-1964
          1.DeStalinization, 1956-1964
          2.Gulag shrinks a little (major projects completed)
          3.Concentration Camps
          4.Death Camps
          5.KGB
          6.Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, Poland, East Germany
          7.Berlin Crisis
          8.Cuban Missile Crisis
     G.Leonid Brezhnev, 1964-1982
          1.ReStalinization
          2.Gulag re-extended to Stalinist proportions
          3.Concentration Camps
          4.Death Camps
          5.KGB
          6.Cult of the Leader
          7.Brezhnev Doctrine: Irreversibility of Communism
          8.Czechoslovakia crushed, 1968
          9.Afghanistan
          10.Soviet support for North Vietnam, Viet-Cong
          11.Soviet activism and subversion throughout Africa
     H.Yuri Andropov, 1982-1984
          1.Stalinism
          2.Concentration Camps
          3.Death Camps
          4.KGB
     I.Konstantin Chernenko, 1984-1985
          1.Stalinism
          2.Concentration Camps
          3.Death Camps
          4.KGB
     J.Mikhail Gorbachev, 1985-
          1.DeStalinization
          2.Perestroika (restructuring)(compare to Gleichshaltung)
          3.Glasnost (openness)
          4.KGB
     K.Boris Yeltsin, 1991-
          1.ReStalinization
          2.Outlaws Communist party
          3.Besieges & destroys democratically elected Congress
          4.Besieges, crushes, occupies independent Chechnya
II.Chinese Communist Leaders, 1949-1997
     A.Mao Tse-Tung, 1949-1976
          1.Concentration Camps
          2.Death Camps
          3.Great Leap Forward
               a.Steel
               b.Swallows
          4.Cultural Revolution
     B.Gang of Four (briefly)
     C.Deng Xiao-Ping, 1976-1997
          1.Concentration Camps
          2.Death Camps
          3.Tienanmen Square Massacre (1989
          4. Deng dies in 1997, goes to hell.