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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 and again from 1977 to 1982.
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.’.
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Oct 14, 2018 · How Leonid Brezhnev almost escalated the Yom Kippur War into a nuclear nightmare. With Nixon in a drunken stupor on the verge of impeachment, and Israel locked in deadly war, an unstable Soviet...
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May 29, 1972 · 5 minute read. 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...
Aug 12, 2019 · At 11 a.m. Moscow time, Soviet television and radio officially announced Brezhnev's death; the well-known television anchor and host of the flagship Vremya news program, Ivan Kirillov, read the ...
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.
Leonid Brezhnev. Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982) was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982. Brezhnev was born in Kamenskoye in Ukraine, the son of a steelworker and a housewife. Like his father, he was given a technical education in metallurgy and sent to work in steel factories. Brezhnev joined the Komsomol youth party ...
