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Bookmark or Share- Brezhnev Doctrine | Definition, Significance, & Facts | BritannicaLeonid Brezhnev. Brezhnev Doctrine, foreign policy put forth by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in 1968, calling on the Soviet Union to intervene—including militarily—in countries where socialist rule was under threat. The doctrine was largely a response to the Prague Spring, a period of liberalization instituted in the Soviet-bloc country ...
- Détente - Definition, Policy & Cold War | HISTORYRichard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev Meet. Soon after Nixon’s landmark visit to China in February 1972, he began a series of meetings with Brezhnev, then general secretary of the Soviet Communist ...
- Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev - WikipediaOn 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 television. Brezhnev was given a state funeral after ...
- The Brezhnev era (Chapter 11) - The Cambridge History of RussiaSummary. 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 ...
- Soviet Union - The Brezhnev era | BritannicaSoviet 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. The industrial and agricultural branches of the party apparat were unified; restrictions on the size of household plots and private livestock on collective farms were removed; the party ...
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