At the 20th Party Congress, Stalin's reign was criticised as the "personality cult".
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On the national level, the heart of the collective leadership was officially the Central Committee of the Communist Party, but in practice, was the Politburo.
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Its main task was to distribute powers and functions among the Politburo, the Central Committee, and the Council of Ministers to hinder any attempts to create a one-man dominance over the Soviet political system by a Soviet leader, such as that seen under Joseph Stalin's rule.
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Collective leadership is characterised by limiting the powers of the General Secretary and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers as related to other offices by enhancing the powers of collective bodies, such as the Politburo.
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Yet, such collective leadership system did not prevent the rise of preeminent figures who dominated the Movement's leadership like the physician Dr. Fuad Chemali in 1972, succeeded by the lawyer Georges Adwan in 1973.
Modelled after parent western militant leftist/urban guerrilla organizations, the LARF was made of left-wing Christian activists who had previously fought with the PLO, led by the Maronite Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (noms de guerre “Salih al-Masri”, “Abdul-Qadir Sa’adi”), a former school teacher; after being arrested by the French authorities in 1984, he was replaced by a collective leadership trio formed by his younger brothers’ Robert, Maurice, and Emile.