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2 days 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. His death was officially acknowledged on 11 November simultaneously by Soviet radio and ...
5 days ago · Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like most Russian apparatchiks who excessively smoked, drank, and...
1 day ago · Russia - Perestroika, Glasnost, Reforms: When Brezhnev died in 1982, most elite groups understood that the Soviet economy was in trouble. Due to senility, Brezhnev had not been in effective control of the country during his last few years, and Kosygin had died in 1980.
3 days ago · 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.
- 20-21 August 1968
- Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
9 hours ago · When student protests rocked the country in the following decade, the party was too weak to play a role. American student protesters held up portraits of China’s Chairman Mao, the communist revolutionary Che Guevara, and Vietnam’s President Ho Chi Minh. But they ignored Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin.
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5 days ago · After Khrushchev came the triumvirate of Leonid I. Brezhnev, Aleksey N. Kosygin, and N.V. Podgorny. The first was the party leader, the second headed the government, and the third became chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, a ceremonial position.
1 day ago · In 1982, Leonid Brezhnev, the general secretary of the Soviet Communist party, died at the age of 75. Like many of his colleagues in the politburo, he was old and sick. He was replaced by the ...
