Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Brezhnev, who took power after Khrushchev, attempted to reinstate Stalinism back into the Soviet Union. His reign created the neo-Stalinist period in Russia, albeit with a series of economic reforms that favored light industries and the production of consumer goods than heavy industry. Brezhnev also supported weakening animosities with the West in order to improve relations, attempting to improve

to call out political leaders for the things that they had been doing in order to gain power and control. Lines such as “"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Reagan and Haig, Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher, and Paisly, "Hello Maggie!" Mr. Brezhnev and party. "Who 's the bald chap?" The ghost of McCarthy, The memories of Nixon. "Good-bye!"  And now, adding color, a group of anonymous latin- American Meat packing glitterati.” (Pink Floyd). All of these political leaders had done things to anger

Moscow Summit, May 1972: Nixon & Brezhnev (The Era of Détente Begins) It is ironic that Nixon and Kissinger are identified with the beginning of détente, as first Nixon only intended to have limited accommodation with the Soviet Union. Nixon believed that no summit meeting without adequate preparation had the prospect for concrete agreements. Both Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger based their policies on the principles of negotiations, nuclear sufficiency and linkage. While Nixon was the quintessential

leaders like Stalin and Brezhnev for being responsible for not improving the Soviet economy. Gorbachev’s reforms to modernize the USSR created more freedom and openness for Russians, but sprawled uprisings and revolutions in the Central Asia and the Baltic states. The inability to keep up with the United States economically in the 1970s and 1980s along with the later reforms to improve the Soviet economy in Gorbachev’s term led to the downfall of the USSR. Leonid Brezhnev had taken over as the head

during the period. Brezhnev spent huge amount of money in the defense sector and according to Blanchard & Froot et al. (1994) the share of defense spending in GNP was 12% in 1960-70, and increased by 4% in 1975-80 to 16%, even though the country was is deep economic crisis. Brezhnev increased military spending each year; even as the country needed the spending in other “important” sectors, to boots the growth of the country, and caused low-level of economic development. Brezhnev increased the spending

An entire generation in Cold War Soviet Russia was born to a nuclear bomb, raised under the constant threat of war, and seemed doomed to suffocate by their own government, until they were emancipated by a life force that was as formidable as unlikely a savior. This paper discusses the role of the Beatles and their music in the cultural, political and social revolutions that took place Cold War Russia. Drawing upon various conversations and anecdotes that Leslie Woodhead discusses in his 2013 book

Following this was the Brezhnev Era, Soviet Union circa 1964 through 1982, in the Soviet Union. The Brezhnev Era is the time in the Soviet Union that Leonid Brezhnev was in power of Russia and the Soviet Union from October 1964 through November 1982. During this era, the Soviet Union began with a high economic growth and prosperity but then it ended in a weaker Soviet Union with a social, political and economic lack of progress. Nikita Khrushchev was President before Brezhnev but he was kicked out

went from Stalin to Khruschev then Brezhnev, each impacting the Cold War with significant actions. In the film Czechoslovakia 1968: We Don 't Want to Live on Our Knees explains after the suicide of Hitler the fascist regime merely changed from Hitler’s “Third Reich” to Stalin’s “Red Army” in 1944-45. The same could be seen in Khruschev who shifted from non-aggressive too aggressive in Hungary October 31st 1958 (Zubok, p.117). Next, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev invaded Prague, Czechoslovakia in the

And this thesis can be supported even in 1976 when the Soviet leader - Leonid Brezhnev states that “We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.” Revisionist theories give big credit to Gorbachev, the leader of the Soviet Union, for ending the Cold War, or

Nikita Sergeyevich Kruschev Serving as one the most controversial leaders of the Soviet Union during its relatively short existence, Nikita Sergeyevich Khruschev proved to be a leader capable of transforming a nation. Through his many alterations to the systems by which the Soviets lived, he managed to increase the standard of living and productivity of this Communist State. Described as a man of enormous energy and drive, he was shrewd, tough, earthy, sociable and talkative, and he confidently