And besides, Brezhnev was a doctrinaire Stalinist communist. So his job was not to rock the boat or upset the Russian communist hierarchy. Instead, he reigned over the penultimate Soviet “era of ...

Rewinding to 1981, in the twilight of the Brezhnev era, the USSR similarly escalated prices on alcohol and cigarettes amidst their engagement in Afghanistan. During that period, Russians expressed ...

Leonid Brezhnev was a Soviet-era statesman and politician, who governed the USSR from 1964 to 1982. Nearly 70 civilians evacuated from Sudzha by soldiers, volunteers — acting governor Alexander ...

Brezhnev was born in Kamenskoye in 1906 and ... which stipulates the removal of monuments and renaming locations related to the Soviet era. The post-Maidan Ukrainian authorities have renamed ...

Novotny asked the Soviet leader, Brezhnev, for help to crackdown on the protests, but Brezhnev refused, and in early 1968 Novotny was replaced as Communist Party Secretary by Alexander Dubcek.