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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

"Introducing a Historical and Political Oddity: Madame President!"
(inspired by @theev)

1937 - 1941: Senator Alf Landon (Republican)
1936 (with Frank Knox) def. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic), Senator Burton K. Wheeler (New Deal for All)


1941 - 1947: Senator Huey P. Long (Democratic)
1940 (with James Farley) def. President Alf Landon (Republican)

1944 (with Hattie Caraway) def. General Douglas MacArthur (Republican), Governor Benjamin Laney (States' Rights)
1947 - 1949: Vice President Hattie Caraway (Democratic)

1949 - 1952: Senator Robert A. Taft (Republican)
1948 (with Hattie Caraway) def. Fmr. President Huey P. Long (Share our Wealth), Governor James F. Byrnes (Democratic)

1952 - 1953: Vice President Hattie Caraway (Share our Wealth)

1953 - present: Governor Thomas E. Dewey (Republican)

1952 (with William Knowland) def. Senator Eleanor Roosevelt (Democratic), President Hattie Caraway (Share our Wealth), Fmr. Governor Jimmie Davis (States' Rights)
 
A list with Johann Lamont in a position of power seems ASB.

In certain drafts of British Republics (i shall return to it some day) she was PM and maybe President of the Republic of Great Britain &NI "North Britain" and all it took was *checks notes* a PoD in 1912 and most of England not being there and her somehow still existing.
 
"Introducing a Historical and Political Oddity: Madame President!"
(inspired by @theev)

1937 - 1941: Senator Alf Landon (Republican)
1936 (with Frank Knox) def. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic), Senator Burton K. Wheeler (New Deal for All)


1941 - 1947: Senator Huey P. Long (Democratic)
1940 (with James Farley) def. President Alf Landon (Republican)

1944 (with Hattie Caraway) def. General Douglas MacArthur (Republican), Governor Benjamin Laney (States' Rights)
1947 - 1949: Vice President Hattie Caraway (Democratic)

1949 - 1952: Senator Robert A. Taft (Republican)
1948 (with Hattie Caraway) def. Fmr. President Huey P. Long (Share our Wealth), Governor James F. Byrnes (Democratic)

1952 - 1953: Vice President Hattie Caraway (Share our Wealth)

1953 - present: Governor Thomas E. Dewey (Republican)

1952 (with William Knowland) def. Senator Eleanor Roosevelt (Democratic), President Hattie Caraway (Share our Wealth), Fmr. Governor Jimmie Davis (States' Rights)

I always like TLs where you get a woman leader a bit earlier. Like Megan Lloyd George or Eleanor Roosevelt. I'd not heard of Caraway before.
 
Man Is The Cruelest Animal - the Political career of Ernie Chambers
alternate title: Blackentheborg once again pushes the Franklin Coverup conspiracy
alternate alternate title: TRUE DETECTIVE SEASON 1 WAS REAL


1966: Head of the Near North Side Police-Community Relations Council committee

- successfully negotiated concessions from the city's leaders on behalf of North Omaha's African-American youth
1968: Candidate for the Omaha School Board
- didn't appear on ballot
1969: Candidate for Omaha City Council (write-in)
1971-1974: Member of the Nebraska Legislature from the 11th district

- replacing George W. Althouse
- advocated on behalf of David Rice and Ed Poindexter

1974: Democratic Party candidate for Governor of Nebraska
defeated Orval Keyes, others
1975-1978: Governor of Nebraska
defeated Richard Marvel
- made Nebraska the first US state to outlaw marital assault
- attempted to introduce bill to impose property taxes on churches
- challenged Nebraska State Bar Association for right to practice law without membership

- lost reelection to Charles Thone

1978-1981: Private citizen, activist
- maintained he was 'bullied' out of the Governors seat by disinformation campaigns, pledged to run again
- coordinated with and offered legal advice to the Omaha Black Panther Party
- pushed for further police reform in North Omaha

1981: Democratic Party candidate for Governor of Nebraska
defeated Robert V. Hansen, others
1982-1986: Governor of Nebraska
defeated Charles Thone
- spearheaded internal probe into conduct of state police departments, responsible for dismissal of Omaha Chief of Police Robert Wadman
- unable to run for second term due to constitutional limit

- famously told President Ronald Reagan during state visit; "there is a vast and insidious conspiracy at play."
1986-1988: Private citizen, activist
- speculative candidate for vice president for Gary Hart (refused, endorsed Jesse Jackson)
1988: Democratic Party nominee for House of Representatives election in Nebraska
defeated Frank Marsh, Donald McGinley, others (write-in)
1989-1992: Representative for Nebraska's 2nd congressional district
'88: defeated Jerry Schenken
'90: defeated Lou Sheldon
- pushed for comprehensive housing reform, anti-interventionism, federal transparency and separation of church and state
- condemned 1991 police beating of Rodney King

- became an Independent candidate in response to Democratic Party fatigue and conflict with progressive ideals
1992-2001: Representative for Nebraska's 2nd congressional district
'92: defeated Ronald Staskiewicz
'94: defeated Jon Lynn Christensen
'96: defeated Ally Milder, Patricia Dunn (Natural Law), Phillip Torrison (Libertarian)
'98: defeated Roland Luedtke
- publicly called for the exoneration of the West Memphis Three in 1994, resignation of Attorney General Janet Reno (1993-2001)
- voted in favour of limiting military operations in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

- left office due to "threats made by Washington insiders"
1990-1993: Chair of the House Select Committee on the Franklin Scandal
- recommended Attorney General Dick Thornburgh (1988-1991) appoint Nebraska Legislator John DeCamp as special prosecutor (denied)
- recommended firing of special prosecutor Lance Ito (denied)
- pushed for the sentencing of legislator Lawrence King Jr., lobbyist Craig Spence, former national security advisor Donald Gregg, Omaha World Herald publisher Harold W. Andersen, and over fifty other alleged participants (denied)
- verdict remains 'inconclusive' due to jury tampering.

1997-2001: Co-Chair of the Congressional Out of Poverty Caucus
serving with Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
1996: Reform Party primary candidate for President (write-in)
[refused nomination], lost to Ted Gunderson
2000: Green Party Nominee for President (write-in)
[denied nomination], lost to Ralph Nader
2001-2002☨: Private citizen, activist
- hosted a weekly call-in public-access television cable TV show on Omaha's Community Telecast, Inc.
- continued activism against police corruption
- assassinated in 2002 by conspiracy theorist Milton William Cooper
 
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I always like TLs where you get a woman leader a bit earlier. Like Megan Lloyd George or Eleanor Roosevelt. I'd not heard of Caraway before.
She's the first woman ever elected to the Senate, appointed after her husband died. She surprised everyone by actually running for a full term and surprised everyone again by actually winning against several popular opponents
 
Jumping on this band wagon late but I'm doing it with creativity I guess;
Politicians I have met in my travels etc.
1987-1992: Dermot Arthur (Labour)
1992-2010: Paddy Tipping (Labour)

2010-2019: Mark Spencer (Conservative leading Unity Government)
2019: Karen Lee (Socialist leading Democratic Coalition)
2019-: Lillian Greenwood (Cooperative)
 
1968;Nelson A.Rockefeller Republican John Tower Defeated:Hubert Humphrey Democratic Edmund Muskie, George Wallace American Independent Curtis Lemay

1972:Nelson Rockefeller Republican John Tower Defeated:Fred Harris Democratic Sargent Terry Sanford

1976:Henry Jackson Democratic Jimmy Carter
Def:John Tower Republican Gerald Ford


1
Richard Nixon contracts a illness and cannot run.Rockefeller defeats Reagan in primary goes on to win in the general as Nixon did in real life.

President Rockefeller enacts tough crime bills and welfare reform.
Wins reelection by landslide
Funds Apollo mission for the last trip to the moon in 1975.

2.president Rockefeller a Vice President loses 1976 election to senator Jackson
In one of the closest elections ever.
 
Politicians I Have Met: AlfieJ edition

1992-1993: Neil Kinnock (Labour)
1993-1998: John Prescott (Labour)
1998-2001: David Blunkett (Labour)
2001-2005: David Blunkett (British Workers)
2005-2010: Peter Hain (New Democracy)
2010-2010: John Leech (New Democracy)
2010-2013: Jesse Norman (New Democracy)
2013-2015: Andy Burnham (New Democracy)
2015-2021: John McDonnell (LRC)
2021-: Ted Miliband (LRC)

Something something warn out Kinnock holds in a hung parliament, cobbles something together after Black Wednesday, decides to pack it in out of sheer exhaustion over Mastricht. The new Deputy Leader John Prescott is unelected unopposed for what is perceived to be a poisoned chalice premiership. Keeps the economy ticking along and fully embraces Delor's Social Europe to the joy of the Lib Dems and the dismay of the Tories. The latter finds some reason to completely butcher itself over Europe as the most hardcore Europhobic Thatcherites try and fail to get a Tory Refoundation Party off the ground. Prescott delivers Labour's first majority for 18 years and sails off into the sunset, handing over to preferred successor David Blunkett, beating out a much declined Gordon Brown. Wahabbist terrorism in New York and London disrupts a sleepy premiership of mild constitutional reform and genuine progress in Northern Ireland, unleashing Blunkett's well-known authoritarian streak. Labour is unwilling to go along with his most extreme incursions into civil liberties and Blunkett forms an unholy alliance of authoritarianism in the form of the British Workers Party. Peter Hain's Liberals are able to gobble up the most libertarian minded mainstream Labour MPs while, in a strange turn of fate, the remaining Socialist Campaign Group is able to take over the rump Labour Party. Blunkett is chucked out in 2005 and Hain's umbrella group liberalises the nation, while internal divisions see conferences frequently contested with leadership elections between old liberals, moderate social democrats and compassionate conservatives. The leadership flits between all three for ten years before the reformed Labour Representation Committee (the largest opposition party since the implosion of the BWP and remaining Tories) sails into office under the reassuring technocratic social democracy of John McDonnell and later protege Ted Miliband.
 
Promised Land: A Utopia ATLF:
2010-2016: David Cameron (Conservative)
2010 (Coalition with Lib Dems) def: Gordon Brown (Labour), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats)
2015 (Majority) def: Ed Miliband (Labour), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP)
Brexit Referendum:
53% Remain, Leave 47%
2016-2018: Michael Gove (Conservative)
2018-2021: Katy Clark (Labour)

2018 ('Progressive' Coalition) def: Michael Gove (Conservative), Alistair Carmichael (Liberal Democrats), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Caroline Lucas-Siân Berry (Greens)
2021-: Lisa Nandy (Labour)
2022 (Majority) def: Liz Truss (Conservative), Alistair Carmichael (Liberal Democrats), Jo Cherry (SNP), Mhairi Black-Siân Berry (Scottish Progressive-Green Alliance)
2024: Russian Flu Pandemic


The Shetland Isles Russian Flu outbreak of 2014 has been said to have stopped the SNP reach an immense electoral breakthrough as some predicted, whilst the party would do well in the 2015, it's seeming inability to handle the Russian Flu outbreak and instead focusing on the Independence Referendum would damage it and whilst it would still make a breakthrough of 30 seats, it would dominate Scotland as some predicted. David Cameron was still able to gain a slight majority helped by promising to hold a referendum on Europe and remain would win by 53%, helped by a shadowy advertising company lead by a Mr Michael Dugdale. Cameron would still resign and people would lament Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt's abrupt death in 2015 from a rare form of lung cancer as Michael Gove would win.

Michael Gove’s rule was populist, chaotic, as he gunned for a possible second referendum in the coming future and made Dominic Cummings an advisor, who's bizarre death in a cycling accident after calling for a reform of the British Government confused many.

Katy Clark had won the 2015 Labour Leadership election and who's Pro-European, Populist and Progressive messaging would pay dividends in 2018 as she was able to form a stable 'Progressive Coalition' with the Liberal Democrats (lead by 'Hero of the Shetlands' Alistair Carmichael) and the Greens. However Clark's Green, Social Democratic rule isn't for long, her calls for reform and open government would anger certain individuals as it seemed that plans would be revealed, as a strange Flu outbreak in China rapidly appear and then disappear in 2020 as Clark launched an enquiry into 'spy cops'. In 2021, Clark would abruptly be diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer after calling for more open government and shady deaths that had occurred in recent years. Lisa Nandy would get into power but her Left Wing Populist fire would quickly dampen, many pointing out her extreme change in rhetoric post a meeting with one of the MI5 higher ups. Meanwhile Nicola Sturgeon would abruptly step down after calling for an independence referendum and she would oddly die in a gas explosion not long afterwards, Jo Cherry would win the SNP leadership election in a seeming stitch up leading to the Left of the SNP creating there own party and forming an alliance with the Greens.

The 2022 election would see Labour win a majority after an incredibly strange campaign from Liz Truss in which she seemed to imply a shadowy conspiracy was keeping Labour in power. Meanwhile data leaks and investigations seemed to indicate something rotten was eating a way at the heart of the British establishment. But before anything could be done, a worldwide Russian Flu pandemic would occur. Thankfully vaccines would be made just in time and the pandemic stopped. Though strangely, pregnancies seemed to be going down afterwards...


*This is inspired by Utopia TV show, I guess the Network would probably want nothing that really changes the status quo too much. Anything that keeps them in control in some way*
**Also do take vaccines folks when offered**
 
Politicians I Have Met: AlfieJ edition

1992-1993: Neil Kinnock (Labour)
1993-1998: John Prescott (Labour)
1998-2001: David Blunkett (Labour)
2001-2005: David Blunkett (British Workers)
2005-2010: Peter Hain (New Democracy)
2010-2010: John Leech (New Democracy)
2010-2013: Jesse Norman (New Democracy)
2013-2015: Andy Burnham (New Democracy)
2015-2021: John McDonnell (LRC)
2021-: Ted Miliband (LRC)

Something something warn out Kinnock holds in a hung parliament, cobbles something together after Black Wednesday, decides to pack it in out of sheer exhaustion over Mastricht. The new Deputy Leader John Prescott is unelected unopposed for what is perceived to be a poisoned chalice premiership. Keeps the economy ticking along and fully embraces Delor's Social Europe to the joy of the Lib Dems and the dismay of the Tories. The latter finds some reason to completely butcher itself over Europe as the most hardcore Europhobic Thatcherites try and fail to get a Tory Refoundation Party off the ground. Prescott delivers Labour's first majority for 18 years and sails off into the sunset, handing over to preferred successor David Blunkett, beating out a much declined Gordon Brown. Wahabbist terrorism in New York and London disrupts a sleepy premiership of mild constitutional reform and genuine progress in Northern Ireland, unleashing Blunkett's well-known authoritarian streak. Labour is unwilling to go along with his most extreme incursions into civil liberties and Blunkett forms an unholy alliance of authoritarianism in the form of the British Workers Party. Peter Hain's Liberals are able to gobble up the most libertarian minded mainstream Labour MPs while, in a strange turn of fate, the remaining Socialist Campaign Group is able to take over the rump Labour Party. Blunkett is chucked out in 2005 and Hain's umbrella group liberalises the nation, while internal divisions see conferences frequently contested with leadership elections between old liberals, moderate social democrats and compassionate conservatives. The leadership flits between all three for ten years before the reformed Labour Representation Committee (the largest opposition party since the implosion of the BWP and remaining Tories) sails into office under the reassuring technocratic social democracy of John McDonnell and later protege Ted Miliband.

beautiful
 
Proud to announce that I'm back on my bullshit.

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom

General Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

1923-1942: Joseph Stalin (CPSU--"Stalinist")
defeated in power struggle, 1924-7: Leon Trotsky (CPSU--"Left Opposition")
1942-1945: Vyacheslav Molotov (CPSU)
ruling as part of War Triumvirate with Georgy Zhukov (Red Army) and Lavrentiy Beria (NKVD)
1945-1967: Georgy Zhukov (CPSU with Red Army support)
defeated in power struggle, 1945: Lavrentiy Beria* (NKVD), Vyacheslav Molotov ("Anti-Bonapartist" CPSU)
defeated in attempted putsch, 1951: Georgy Malenkov (CPSU--"Party Rule Group")
1967-1980: Alexei Kosygin (CPSU--"Reformist")
defeated in power struggle, 1967: Lazar Kaganovich (CPSU--"Hardliner")
defeated in attempted coup, 1973-5: Dmitry Ustinov ("Anti-Kosygin" Red Army)
def 1977: (Reformist majority) Dmitri Shepilov (CPSU--"Stability"), Aksel Berg (CPSU--"Cybernetic")

1980-1985: Andrei Kirilenko (CPSU--"Reformist")
def 1981: (Reformist majority) Sergei Sobolev (CPSU--"Cybernetic"), Dmitri Shepilov (CPSU--"Stability")
1985-1993: Valentin Turchin (CPSU--"Cybernetic")
def 1985: (Cybernetic majority) Andrei Kirilenko (CPSU--"Reformist"), Dmitri Shepilov (CPSU--"Stability")
def 1989: (Cybernetic majority) Yegor Ligachyov (CPSU--"Old Reformist"), Lev Ponomayov (CPSU--"New Reformist"), Nikolai Leonov (CPSU--"National Preservation")

1993-1997: Nikolai Kardashev (CPSU--"Cybernetic")
def 1993: (Cybernetic majority) Georgy Shakhnazarov (CPSU--"Reformist"), Valentin Varennikov (CPSU--"National Preservation"), Anatol Salaru (CPSU--"Union of Regions")
1997-2005: Georgy Shakhnazarov (CPSU--"Reformist")
def 1997: (Reformist majority) Nikolai Kardashev (CPSU--"Cybernetic"), Valentin Varennikov (CPSU--"National Preservation"), Leonid Kravchuk (CPSU--"Union of Regions"), Svyatoslav Fyodorov (CPSU--"A Worker's Union")
def 2001: (Reformist majority) Alexei Eryomin (CPSU--"Cybernetic"), Leonid Kravchuk (CPSU--"Union of Regions"), Albert Makashov (CPSU--"National Preservation"), Svyatoslav Fyodorov (CPSU--"A Worker's Union")
2005-2008: Victor Skumin (CPSU--"Cybernetic")
def 2005: (Cybernetic majority) Georgy Shakhnazarov (CPSU--"Reformist"), Edgar Savisaar (CPSU--"Union of Regions"), Alexander Lukashenko (CPSU--"National Preservation"), Svyatoslav Fyodorov (CPSU--"A Worker's Union")
2008-2009: Victor Skumin (CPSU--"Noospheric")
2009-2011: Edgar Savisaar (CPSU--"Union of Regions")
def 2009: (Union of Regions minority, informal alliance with Reformists and National Preservation) Victor Skumin (CPSU--"Noospheric"), Edgar Savisaar (CPSU--"Union of Regions"), Grigory Yavlinsky (CPSU--"Reformists"), Dmitry Itskov (CPSU--"Cybernetic"), Gennady Semigin (CPSU--"National Preservation"), Ilya Ponomarev (CPSU--"A Worker's Union")
2011 referendums on SSR independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine LEAVE

2011-2013: Gennady Semigin (CPSU--"National Preservation")
2013-2021: Victor Skumin (CPSU--"Noospheric")
def 2013: (Noospheric majority) Vladimir Milov (CPSU--"Reformist/Regionalist/Old Cybernetic"), Alexey Gaskarov (CPSU--"Workers Power"), Gennady Semigin (CPSU--"National Preservation")
def 2017: (Noospheric majority) Ainur Kurmanov (CPSU--"Workers Power"), Evgeny Chichvarkin (CPSU--"Centenary Alliance"), Sergei Kurginyan (CPSU--"National Preservation")

2021-2029: Dmitriy Jvania (CPSU--"Workers Power")
def 2021: (Workers Power majority) Victor Skumin (CPSU--"Noospheric"), Nikolai Starikov (CPSU--"National Preservation"), Valentina Melnikova (CPSU--"Centenary Alliance")
def 2025: (Workers Power majority) Danila Medvedev (CPSU--"Noospheric"), Maxim Katz (CPSU--"Centenary Alliance"), Nikolai Starlikov (CPSU--"National Preservation")

2029-2030: Yekaterina Vernadsky (CPSU--"Noospheric")
def 2029: (Noospheric majority) Dmitry Jvania (CPSU--"Workers Power"), Maxim Katz (CPSU--"Centenary Alliance"), Maksim Mishenko (CPSU--"National Preservation")
2030-2042: VNIIPAS (acting in harmony with EuroNet)
2042-XXXX: VNIIPAS (acting as an integral unit of the Cosm)

As we are present here, one hundred and twenty-five years after victory in the Great Patriotic War, it is fitting for us to look back upon the great men and women of the past--my predecessors as General Secretary--who made it so that we could be here now.

Lenin! The vanguard of the worker's revolution, who founded our Union's new system as an example for all mankind. Zhukov! The general who won both the war and the peace for the Union, triumphing over enemies without and within. Kosygin! Who laid the foundations for a new economy and the rebirth of Soviet power. Skumin! Who led the way to the mental and spiritual evolution of the Union, fulfilling the promise of the New Soviet Man. VNIIPAS! Our first non-human General Secretary, the overseer of the final integration of our Union into a worldwide community.

Of course, they all made mistakes. Even the greatest sophont inevitably puts a foot wrong. Lenin's adoption of the NEP held back industrial modernisation, and suppression of healthy factionalism allowed Stalin to justify purging his opponents. Zhukov, relying as he did on the military to support him early on, allowed the withering of Party power in favour of an increasingly independent General Staff. Kosygin, while officially committed to the policy of one-party democracy, dragged his feet on opening up Party membership and de-restricting the views expressible in the public sphere. Skumin invested too heavily in his pet projects, throwing money at yogis and moon-bases instead of the Union's people. Even VNIIPAS, my great predecessor, had his flaws, pushing too hard for integration and alienating more moderate supercontrollers like MiniEco and ZB.

For all their mistakes, we cannot help but recognise the world they made--the world I have inherited. Just look at those others who sought to steer our Party. With all due respect to my opponent, DEAD HAND's military experience of waiting to see if a nuke had landed would hardly have helped in government, and his idolisation of Russian cultural unity would mark a return to the dismal few years after Ukrainian independence, when the Union needed to try and prove itself with un-Marxist nationalist posturing. Likewise, Shchedrov's dismal campaign wanted to undermine the nature of our party by weakening our stance on bourgeoise capitalism, returning to the flawed free-market system, and Ibrahamova's infantile ultras whish to dampen down our party by tying it to a broader pan-national group--a complete abdication of Lenin's line on popular fronts.

That however, is all in the past, and as your new General Secretary I must look to the future. I promise that under my remit, the CPSU will remain a vital force in the Cosm's politics. We will ensure that Intercosmos will be fairly represented among the new lunar stations. We will remain true to our principles, refusing to join with any bourgeoise parties in the World Advisory Council. Finally, we will ensure that the Union, the nation that was the vanguard for the cosmist revolution, remains at the forefront of posthuman research, and that the dream of Fedorov will be one day recognised.

Thank you, and goodnight. You may now redownload yourselves.


--Vladimir Yefremov's speech on election to the position of General Secretary. While not very well-written, it has been selected for this collection due to its historical significance as the first speech by a human CPSU leader to take place entirely in noospace.
 
A Most Liberal Scandal

1916-1920 David Lloyd George (Liberal led War Government, Coupon Coalition after 1918)

1918 def:William Adamson (Labour),Herbert Asquith (Liberal),Éamon de Valera (Sinn Féin),John Dillon (Irish Parliamentary),Henry Page Croft (National)

1920-1921 Andrew Bonar Law (Conservative Majority)

1921-1923 Austen Chamberlain (Conservative Majority)


1923-1926 Ramsey MacDonald (Labour-Liberal Coalition)

1923 def:Herbert Asquith (Liberal),Austen Chamberlain (Conservative)

1926-1932 Stanley Baldwin (Conservative Majority)
1926 def:Ramsey MacDonald (Labour),Herbert Asquith (Liberal),James Maxton (ILP),Oswald Mosley (BPP)

1931-1943 John Robert Clynes (Labour Majority)
1931 def:Stanley Baldwin (Conservative),Herbert Samuel (Liberal),James Maxton (ILP),Oswald Mosley (BPP)
1936 def:Neville Chamberlain (Conservative),Archibald Sinclair (Liberal)
1941 def:Kingsley Wood (Conservative),Archibald Sinclair (Liberal)

1943-1946 Herbert Morrison (Labour Majority)

1946-19xx Anthony Eden (Conservative Majority)

1946 def: Herbert Morrison (Labour),Archibald Sinclair (Liberal)
 
Proud to announce that I'm back on my bullshit.



General Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

1923-1942: Joseph Stalin (CPSU--"Stalinist")
defeated in power struggle, 1924-7: Leon Trotsky (CPSU--"Left Opposition")
1942-1945: Vyacheslav Molotov (CPSU)
ruling as part of War Triumvirate with Georgy Zhukov (Red Army) and Lavrentiy Beria (NKVD)
1945-1967: Georgy Zhukov (CPSU with Red Army support)
defeated in power struggle, 1945: Lavrentiy Beria* (NKVD), Vyacheslav Molotov ("Anti-Bonapartist" CPSU)
defeated in attempted putsch, 1951: Georgy Malenkov (CPSU--"Party Rule Group")
1967-1980: Alexei Kosygin (CPSU--"Reformist")
defeated in power struggle, 1967: Lazar Kaganovich (CPSU--"Hardliner")
defeated in attempted coup, 1973-5: Dmitry Ustinov ("Anti-Kosygin" Red Army)
def 1977: (Reformist majority) Dmitri Shepilov (CPSU--"Stability"), Aksel Berg (CPSU--"Cybernetic")

1980-1985: Andrei Kirilenko (CPSU--"Reformist")
def 1981: (Reformist majority) Sergei Sobolev (CPSU--"Cybernetic"), Dmitri Shepilov (CPSU--"Stability")
1985-1993: Valentin Turchin (CPSU--"Cybernetic")
def 1985: (Cybernetic majority) Andrei Kirilenko (CPSU--"Reformist"), Dmitri Shepilov (CPSU--"Stability")
def 1989: (Cybernetic majority) Yegor Ligachyov (CPSU--"Old Reformist"), Lev Ponomayov (CPSU--"New Reformist"), Nikolai Leonov (CPSU--"National Preservation")

1993-1997: Nikolai Kardashev (CPSU--"Cybernetic")
def 1993: (Cybernetic majority) Georgy Shakhnazarov (CPSU--"Reformist"), Valentin Varennikov (CPSU--"National Preservation"), Anatol Salaru (CPSU--"Union of Regions")
1997-2005: Georgy Shakhnazarov (CPSU--"Reformist")
def 1997: (Reformist majority) Nikolai Kardashev (CPSU--"Cybernetic"), Valentin Varennikov (CPSU--"National Preservation"), Leonid Kravchuk (CPSU--"Union of Regions"), Svyatoslav Fyodorov (CPSU--"A Worker's Union")
def 2001: (Reformist majority) Alexei Eryomin (CPSU--"Cybernetic"), Leonid Kravchuk (CPSU--"Union of Regions"), Albert Makashov (CPSU--"National Preservation"), Svyatoslav Fyodorov (CPSU--"A Worker's Union")
2005-2008: Victor Skumin (CPSU--"Cybernetic")
def 2005: (Cybernetic majority) Georgy Shakhnazarov (CPSU--"Reformist"), Edgar Savisaar (CPSU--"Union of Regions"), Alexander Lukashenko (CPSU--"National Preservation"), Svyatoslav Fyodorov (CPSU--"A Worker's Union")
2008-2009: Victor Skumin (CPSU--"Noospheric")
2009-2011: Edgar Savisaar (CPSU--"Union of Regions")
def 2009: (Union of Regions minority, informal alliance with Reformists and National Preservation) Victor Skumin (CPSU--"Noospheric"), Edgar Savisaar (CPSU--"Union of Regions"), Grigory Yavlinsky (CPSU--"Reformists"), Dmitry Itskov (CPSU--"Cybernetic"), Gennady Semigin (CPSU--"National Preservation"), Ilya Ponomarev (CPSU--"A Worker's Union")
2011 referendums on SSR independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine LEAVE

2011-2013: Gennady Semigin (CPSU--"National Preservation")
2013-2021: Victor Skumin (CPSU--"Noospheric")
def 2013: (Noospheric majority) Vladimir Milov (CPSU--"Reformist/Regionalist/Old Cybernetic"), Alexey Gaskarov (CPSU--"Workers Power"), Gennady Semigin (CPSU--"National Preservation")
def 2017: (Noospheric majority) Ainur Kurmanov (CPSU--"Workers Power"), Evgeny Chichvarkin (CPSU--"Centenary Alliance"), Sergei Kurginyan (CPSU--"National Preservation")

2021-2029: Dmitriy Jvania (CPSU--"Workers Power")
def 2021: (Workers Power majority) Victor Skumin (CPSU--"Noospheric"), Nikolai Starikov (CPSU--"National Preservation"), Valentina Melnikova (CPSU--"Centenary Alliance")
def 2025: (Workers Power majority) Danila Medvedev (CPSU--"Noospheric"), Maxim Katz (CPSU--"Centenary Alliance"), Nikolai Starlikov (CPSU--"National Preservation")

2029-2030: Yekaterina Vernadsky (CPSU--"Noospheric")
def 2029: (Noospheric majority) Dmitry Jvania (CPSU--"Workers Power"), Maxim Katz (CPSU--"Centenary Alliance"), Maksim Mishenko (CPSU--"National Preservation")
2030-2042: VNIIPAS (acting in harmony with EuroNet)
2042-XXXX: VNIIPAS (acting as an integral unit of the Cosm)

As we are present here, one hundred and twenty-five years after victory in the Great Patriotic War, it is fitting for us to look back upon the great men and women of the past--my predecessors as General Secretary--who made it so that we could be here now.

Lenin! The vanguard of the worker's revolution, who founded our Union's new system as an example for all mankind. Zhukov! The general who won both the war and the peace for the Union, triumphing over enemies without and within. Kosygin! Who laid the foundations for a new economy and the rebirth of Soviet power. Skumin! Who led the way to the mental and spiritual evolution of the Union, fulfilling the promise of the New Soviet Man. VNIIPAS! Our first non-human General Secretary, the overseer of the final integration of our Union into a worldwide community.

Of course, they all made mistakes. Even the greatest sophont inevitably puts a foot wrong. Lenin's adoption of the NEP held back industrial modernisation, and suppression of healthy factionalism allowed Stalin to justify purging his opponents. Zhukov, relying as he did on the military to support him early on, allowed the withering of Party power in favour of an increasingly independent General Staff. Kosygin, while officially committed to the policy of one-party democracy, dragged his feet on opening up Party membership and de-restricting the views expressible in the public sphere. Skumin invested too heavily in his pet projects, throwing money at yogis and moon-bases instead of the Union's people. Even VNIIPAS, my great predecessor, had his flaws, pushing too hard for integration and alienating more moderate supercontrollers like MiniEco and ZB.

For all their mistakes, we cannot help but recognise the world they made--the world I have inherited. Just look at those others who sought to steer our Party. With all due respect to my opponent, DEAD HAND's military experience of waiting to see if a nuke had landed would hardly have helped in government, and his idolisation of Russian cultural unity would mark a return to the dismal few years after Ukrainian independence, when the Union needed to try and prove itself with un-Marxist nationalist posturing. Likewise, Shchedrov's dismal campaign wanted to undermine the nature of our party by weakening our stance on bourgeoise capitalism, returning to the flawed free-market system, and Ibrahamova's infantile ultras whish to dampen down our party by tying it to a broader pan-national group--a complete abdication of Lenin's line on popular fronts.

That however, is all in the past, and as your new General Secretary I must look to the future. I promise that under my remit, the CPSU will remain a vital force in the Cosm's politics. We will ensure that Intercosmos will be fairly represented among the new lunar stations. We will remain true to our principles, refusing to join with any bourgeoise parties in the World Advisory Council. Finally, we will ensure that the Union, the nation that was the vanguard for the cosmist revolution, remains at the forefront of posthuman research, and that the dream of Fedorov will be one day recognised.

Thank you, and goodnight. You may now redownload yourselves.


--Vladimir Yefremov's speech on election to the position of General Secretary. While not very well-written, it has been selected for this collection due to its historical significance as the first speech by a human CPSU leader to take place entirely in noospace.

Love to see more of this world. Super creepy and fascinating. Also in have us Charlie Stross PM

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Lord Presidents of the British Republic

The Lord President of the British Republic has been the head of state of the British Republic since its foundation in 1820 following the British Revolution. The Lord President also served as head of government in the First and Second Republics, before the creation of the post of Chief Commissioner in 1936 under the Third Republic. The Lord President is elected by the National Assembly for a five-year term under the provisions of the Constitution of the Third British Republic.

FIRST REPUBLIC (1820-1873)

1. Arthur Thistlewood | 1820-1838
Spencean Radicals

2. William Davidson | 1838-1859
Spencean Radicals

3. John Stuart Mill | 1859-1873
Spencean Radicals

SECOND REPUBLIC (1873-1936)

4. Charles Bradlaugh | 1873-1882
Spencean Radicals

5. William Gladstone | 1882-1891
Whig

6. Justin McCarthy | 1891-1900
Tory

7. George Barnes | 1900-1909
Spencean

8. Henry Snell | 1909-1918
Spencean

9. Ada Salter | 1918-1927
Spencean

10. Richard Haldane | 1927-1928
Spencean

11. Reginald McKenna | 1928-1931
Whig

12. Shapurji Dorabji Saklatvala | 1931-1936
Spencean

THIRD REPUBLIC (1936-Present)

13. Arthur Greenwood | 1936-1946
National Spencean Alliance


14. Ernest Bevin | 1946-1951
National Spencean Alliance

15. Percy Harris | 1951-1952
National Spencean Alliance


16. Nancy Astor | 1952-1957
National Conservative Union


17. Quintin Hogg | 1957-1967
National Conservative Union


18. Anthony Crosland | 1967-1977
National Spencean Alliance


19. Edward du Cann | 1977-1987
National Conservative Union


20. George Thomson | 1987-1997
National Spencean Alliance

21. Paul Boateng | 1997-2007
National Spencean Alliance

22. Christopher Huhne | 2007-2012
National Spencean Alliance


23. Desmond Browne | 2012-Present
National Spencean Alliance
 
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