Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Секретариат ЦК КПСС

Information
General Secretary	Joseph Stalin (1922-1953)(first) Mikhail Gorbachev (1985-1990) (last)
Second Secretary Members of the Secretariat in 1990	Georgy Malenkov (1948-1952(first) Yegor Ligachyov (1985-1990)(last) Oleg Baklanov Aleksandra Biryukova Viktor Tchebrikov Anatoly Dobrynin Vladimir Dolgikh Ivan Frolov Andrei Girenko Mikhail Gorbachev Yegor Ligachyov Anatoly Lukyanov Yuri Manayenkov Viktor Nikonov Georgy Razumovsky Nikolai Slyunkov Egor Stroyev Gumer Usmanov Alexandre Yakovlev Mikhail Zimyanin
Elected by	Central Committee
Responsible to	Central Committee
Seats	Varied
Meeting place
Staraya Square, Moscow, Russian SFSR[1]

The Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was responsible for managing and directing the day-to-day operations of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, while the Politburo was charged with the policy-making aspects of the party. The Secretariat was a component agency of the party's Central Committee.