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18. Mai 2018 · Leonid Brezhnev. Born December 19, 1906. Kamenskoye, Ukraine. Died November 10, 1982. Moscow, Russia. General secretary of the. Soviet Communist Party. W hen chosen to succeed Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971; see entry) as the leader of the Soviet Communist Party, Leonid Brezhnev was fifty-eight years old.
The U.S.S.R.’s only allies were underdeveloped Third World states such as Angola, Ethiopia, and Cuba. These were all liabilities, requiring more and more aid to stay afloat. Soviet Union - Command Economy, Five-Year Plans, Collectivization: The economic stagnation of the late Brezhnev era was the result of various factors: the exhaustion of ...
Reconsidering Stagnation in the Brezhnev Era, which transcends preceding scholarship on those years, is a much needed revisionist book of new information, approaches, and interpretations. Subjects range from high politics, economics, and society to culture, from private lives to public policy, and the collection includes an excellent introductory overview by Dina Fainberg and Artemy Kalinovsky.
27. Apr. 2016 · Brezhnev refused to implement reforms that could've addressed certain structural problems in the country; there was a lack of freedom; and a need to incorporate younger, new talent into the party and state apparatus. But the idea that this was a "stagnant" period is not entirely accurate. It was a talking point primarily advanced by Gorbachev, who hammered this point home in order to justify ...
23. Mai 2023 · This commentary originally appeared on The Hill on May 22, 2023. Four decades ago, Leonid Brezhnev led the USSR into what many Soviets called the “era of stagnation.”. Vladimir Putin is taking Russia down a similar path. The USSR tried to recover by turning to reform-minded leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, but too late. The USSR collapsed.
Summary. 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 ...
17. Apr. 1988 · The Brezhnev regime exhausted itself toward the middle of the 1970's. By pure coincidence, it was in 1975 that doctors first succeeded in bringing Brezhnev out of a state of clinical death, and ...
