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The history of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, referred to as the Brezhnev Era, covers the period of Leonid Brezhnev 's rule of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). This period began with high economic growth and soaring prosperity, but gradually significant problems in social, political, and economic areas accumulated, so that ...
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982, and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1960 to 1964 and again from 1977 to 1982. His 18-year term as General Secretary was second only to Joseph Stalin's in duration.
Mar 28, 2008 · The nature of Soviet politics and society during Leonid Brezhnev’s tenure as General Secretary of the CPSU from 1964 to 1982 has until recently remained a comparatively unexplored scholarly topic. Among historians, the turn towards social history ‘from below’ that has so greatly enriched our understanding of the Soviet regime under Lenin ...
Feb 15, 2023 · The Brezhnev era was not all of a piece, and it was the first decade – the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s – that was the high point. After that it went downhill, particularly with regard to the ...
BREZHNEV, LEONID (1906–1982) Soviet leader from 1964 to 1982. Born in Kamenskoye (renamed Dneprodzerzhinsk in 1936) in Ukraine, where his father was a metalworker, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev entered the Kursk Agricultural Technical Institute in 1923, graduating in 1927. In that year he married Victoria Petrovna Denisova, and together they moved ...
Brezhnev's period in power was marked by economic and social stagnation, the intensified persecution of dissidents, and attempted détente, followed by renewed Cold War, in foreign affairs. He was largely responsible for the decision to invade Czechoslovakia in 1968, maintaining the doctrine that one socialist state may interfere in the affairs of another if the continuance of socialism is at risk.
Mar 10, 2022 · Leonid Brezhnev was one of the longest-serving Soviet leaders, second only to Stalin. Brezhnev was 10 years old during the 1917 revolutions, which means that he was the first Soviet Union leader ...
