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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982) 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 (head of state) from 1960 to 1964
Jun 18, 2024 · Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet statesman and Communist Party official who was, in effect, the leader of the Soviet Union for 18 years. He developed the Brezhnev Doctrine, which allowed for Soviet intervention in cases where ‘the essential common interests of other socialist countries are threatened by one of their number.’
Leonid Brezhnev was the leader of the CPSU from 1964 until his death in 1982, whose eighteen-year tenure has been recognized for developing the most powerful military, [1] and for social and economic stagnation in the late Soviet Union.
Leonid Brezhnev, (born Dec. 19, 1906, Kamenskoye, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died Nov. 10, 1982, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), Soviet leader. He worked as an engineer and director of a technical school in Ukraine and held local posts in the Communist Party, becoming regional party secretary in 1939.
Brezhnev may be one of the enduring faces of the Cold War: Western, democratically elected leaders came and went but Brezhnev ruled for two decades. Rise to power. Brezhnev was born in Kamenskoye (now Dniprodzerzhyns'k) in Ukraine, the son of a steel worker.
Jun 25, 2024 · Soviet Union - The Brezhnev era: The new collective leadership was headed by Leonid Brezhnev, party first secretary; Aleksey Kosygin, prime minister; and Nikolay Podgorny, who became president in December 1965.
May 18, 2018 · Died: November 10, 1982. Moscow, Russia. Russian political leader and general secretary. Leonid Brezhnev held a number of important government posts in the former Soviet Union, and was the best known of a three-man committee that held power there from 1964 until his death in 1982.
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982) 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 (head of state) from 1960 to 1964 and again from 1977 to 1982.
Nov 10, 2012 · On November 10, 1982, Leonid Brezhnev died, sparking a generational change in the Soviet leadership and setting in motion an ongoing cycle of reform and reaction in Russia that remains incomplete...
May 29, 1972 · WHEN Leonid Brezhnev replaced Nikita Khrushchev in Russia's top job eight years ago, Kremlinologists tended to agree that the obscure new First Secretary of the Communist Party was just another...
