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2 days ago · Khrushchev, who rose under Stalin as an agricultural specialist, was a Russian who had grown up in Ukraine. During his reign Ukrainians prospered in Moscow. He took it for granted that Russians had a natural right to instruct less-fortunate nationals.
1 day ago · On 10 November 1982, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, the third General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and the fifth leader of the Soviet Union, died at the age of 75 after suffering heart failure following years of serious ailments.
1 day ago · Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and Polish leader Władysław Gomułka in East Berlin, 1967 Brezhnev, Nikolai Podgorny, and East German leader Walter Ulbricht in Moscow Leonid Brezhnev and the leadership of the Warsaw Pact countries were worried that the unfolding liberalizations in Czechoslovakia, including the ending of censorship and political surveillance by the secret police , would be detrimental to their interests.
3 days ago · In Brezhnev’s speech at the 1968 Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Plenum, for example, he reveals that the Soviet Union was able to exert considerable influence in pressuring North Korea to take a less aggressive, militant stance in dealing with the Pueblo incident.
4 days ago · In late 1964, after Nikita Khrushchev had been deposed, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai met with the new Soviet leaders, First Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Alexei Kosygin, but their ideological differences proved a diplomatic impasse to renewed economic relations. The Soviet defense minister's statement damaged the prospects of improved ...
3 days ago · Ukraine - Shelest Rule, Soviet Union, Independence: Until Leonid Brezhnev achieved preeminence by the mid-1970s, power in Moscow after Khrushchev’s ouster was shared by a collective leadership headed by a triumvirate consisting of Brezhnev, Aleksey Kosygin, and Pidhorny.
3 days ago · Russia - Stalinism, Soviet Union, Cold War: Stalin, a Georgian, surprisingly turned to “Great Russian” nationalism to strengthen the Soviet regime. During the 1930s and ’40s he promoted certain aspects of Russian history, some Russian national and cultural heroes, and the Russian language, and he held the Russians up as the elder brother ...
