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| 1903 | Nicholas II |  |
| Aug Dismisses Witte as Minister of Finance |
| 1905 | Sviatopolk-Mirskii | |
| 18th Jan Moscow Dismissed as Minister of the Interior after demonstrations in St Petersburg |
| 1910 | Izvolski | |
| Dismissed after an unsuccesful agreement with Austria |
| 1914 | Nicholas II | |
| Moscow Dismisses the Prime Minister for liberal tendencies & removes Duma immunities |
| 1914 | Zhilinsky, Yakov | |
| Sep Zhilinsky is dismissed after Russia's failure to capture Prussia |
| 1915 | Danilov, Yuri | |
| 1st Sep Dismissed after the Tsar takes personal charge of STAVKA |
| 1915 | Nicholas II | |
| 1st Sep Dismissed & replaced by Nicholas II |
| 1915 | Sukhomlinov, Vladimir | |
| 11th June Moscow Dismissed as Minister of War |
| 1915 | Yanushkevich, Nikolai | |
| 1st Sep Dismissed after Nicholas II takes charge of Stavka |
| 1916 | Polinavov, Alexei | |
| Dismissed by Empress Alexandra after a contrived quarrel with Rasputin |
| 1917 | Alexeiev, Mikhail Vasilevich | |
| 22nd May Dismissed as Commander-in-Chief because of opposition to the Kerenski Offensive |
| 1917 | Lvov | |
| 5th Mar Moscow The Provisional Government dismisses all governors & their deputies |
| 1921 | Trotsky, Leon | |
| 10th Dec Moscow Dismisses leading Russian diplomats including ambassadors in London, Washington & Rome |
| 1925 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| Moscow Removes Trotsky as Commissar of War |
| Moscow Stalin's "Socialism in one country" conflicts with Trotsky's "Permanent Revolution" |
| 1925 | Trotsky, Leon | |
| 16th Jan Dismissed as the Chairman of the Russian Revolutionary Council |
| 16th Jan Stalin's "Socialism in one country" conflicts with Trotsky's "Permanent Revolution" |
| 1926 | Kamenev, Lev Borisovich | |
| 26th Oct Moscow Dismissed from the Politburo during Stalin's purge of the Opposition |
| 1926 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| 23rd Oct Moscow Has Trotsky ousted from the Politburo |
| 23rd Oct Moscow Has Zinoviev ousted from the Politburo |
| 1926 | Trotsky, Leon | |
| 27th Oct Moscow Dismissed from the Politburo after calling Stalin "the gravedigger of the Revolution" |
| 1927 | Trotsky, Leon | |
| Nov Dismissed by Stalin from the Central Committee |
| 1927 | Zinoviev, Grigory Yevseyevich | |
| Expelled from the Communist Party |
| 1929 | Bukharin, Nikolai | |
| 17th Nov Dismissed from the Politburo |
| 1930 | Rykov, Aleksey Ivanovich | |
| Rykov is dismissed by Stalin for opposing his policies |
| 1930 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| Rykov is dismissed by Stalin for opposing his policies |
| 1932 | Zinoviev, Grigory Yevseyevich | |
| Moscow Expelled for a 2nd time from the Communist Party |
| 1941 | Budenny, Semyon Mikhaylovich | |
| 18th Sep Replaced by Marshal Timoshenko just before the capture of Kiev |
| 1941 | Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| Aug Kiev Dismissed by Stalin for adivising that Kiev should be evacuated |
| 1942 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| 21st July Stalin dismisses Timoshenko |
| 1942 | Timoshenko, Semyon | |
| 21st July Stalin dismisses Timoshenko |
| 1953 | Bagirov, Mir Dzhafar Abassovich | |
| July Azerbaijan Dismissed after the arrest of his protector, Beria |
| 1955 | Khruschev, Nikita Sergeyevich | |
| Moscow Manages to manoeuvre Malankov from his position as First Secretary |
| 1956 | Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich | |
| Moscow Expelled from the Government for Stalinist activities & failure to depose Kruschev |
| 1956 | Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| Moscow Dimissed for undermining the Communist Party's authority in the armed forces |
| 1957 | Khruschev, Nikita Sergeyevich | |
| Moscow Dismisses those opposing transferring economic planning from government to party |
| 19th June Moscow The Party Presidium votes to dismiss, but only the Central Committee can do this |
| 4th July Moscow Defeats the "Anti-Party Group" & becomes the undisputed leader of the Soviet Union |
| 1957 | Malenkov, Georgi Maksimilanovich | |
| Moscow Dismissed, placed in charge of a Kazakhstan power station |
| 1958 | Bulganin, Nikolai Aleksandrovich | |
| Moscow Dismissed after the defeat of the "Anti-Party" group |
| 1964 | Khruschev, Nikita Sergeyevich | |
| 14th Oct Moscow Dismissed as First Party Secretary by a Central Committee plenum |
| 1978 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 11th Nov The Moscow City Party Committee meets, with Gorbachev in attendance, and strips Yeltsin of his post as first secretary |
| 1984 | Ogarkov, Nikolai | |
| 6th Sep Relieved of all duties |
| 1987 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Nov Moscow Gorbachev dismisses Yeltsin as Moscow party chief |
| 1987 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| Nov Moscow Gorbachev dismisses Yeltsin as Moscow party chief |
| 12th Nov Moscow Fired as head of the Moscow's Communist party for criticizing the slow pace of reform |
| 1988 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 18th Feb Moscow Soviet Communist Party leaders drop former Moscow party chief Boris Yeltsin from the ruling Politburo |
| 1990 | Bakatin, Vadim Viktorovich | |
| Moscow Dismissed by Gorbachov for his liberalism on nationalities issues |
| 1992 | Chernomyrdin, Viktor Stepanovich | |
| 14th Dec In the face of parliamentary opposition to Gaidar's reforms, Yeltsin fires him and appoints businessman Viktor Chernomyrdin Prime Minister |
| 1992 | Gaidar, Yegor Timurovich | |
| 14th Dec In the face of parliamentary opposition to Gaidar's reforms, Yeltsin fires him and appoints businessman Viktor Chernomyrdin Prime Minister |
| 1992 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 14th Dec In the face of parliamentary opposition to Gaidar's reforms, Yeltsin fires him and appoints businessman Viktor Chernomyrdin Prime Minister |
| 1996 | Baltin, Eduard Dmitrievich | |
| Dismissed as a gesture ti improve relations with the Ukraine |
| 1996 | Lebed, Aleksandr | |
| Oct Yeltsin dismisses Lebed as Secretary of the Security Council, because he had used it as a platform to attempt to become Russia's strongman |
| 1996 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| Oct Yeltsin dismisses Lebed as Secretary of the Security Council, because he had used it as a platform to attempt to become Russia's strongman |
| 1998 | Kirienko, Sergey Vladilenovich | |
| 23rd Aug In the midst of Russia's worst post-Soviet currency crisis, Yeltsin fires Kiriyenko and re-nominates Chernomyrdin Prime Minister |
| 1998 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 23rd Mar Yeltsin fires the entire cabinet, including prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, and replaces him with little-known former Energy Minister Sergei Kiriyenko |
| 23rd Aug In the midst of Russia's worst post-Soviet currency crisis, Yeltsin fires Kiriyenko and re-nominates Chernomyrdin Prime Minister |
| 1999 | Primakov, Yevgeniy Maksimovich | |
| 12th May Yeltsin fires Primakov, ostensibly because of the need for more energetic leadership |
| 1999 | Stepashin, Sergey Vladimirovich | |
| 9th Aug Stepashin is fired without explanation, Yeltsin nominates Vladimir Putin, former KGB official, head of the FSB, and secretary of the Russian Security Council |
| 1999 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 12th May Yeltsin fires Primakov, ostensibly because of the need for more energetic leadership |
| 12th May Yeltsin fires Primakov, who was rapidly gaining popularity, and names Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin to replace him |
| 9th Aug Stepashin is fired without explanation, Yeltsin nominates Vladimir Putin, former KGB official, head of the FSB, and secretary of the Russian Security Council |
| 2000 | Dyachenko, Tatyana | |
| 3rd Jan Putin fires Tatyana Dyachenko, daughter of Boris Yeltsin and Kremlin image advisor from her post in one of his first official acts, moving quickly to distance himself from Yeltsin's scandal-tinged administration |
| 2000 | Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich | |
| 3rd Jan Putin fires Tatyana Dyachenko, daughter of Boris Yeltsin and Kremlin image advisor from her post in one of his first official acts, moving quickly to distance himself from Yeltsin's scandal-tinged administration |
