Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS Leonid Brezhnev ... changing channels…" Jokes sometimes compared Brezhnev to previous Soviet leaders. He was held up to Lenin, who founded the Soviet state and strove ...

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev presides over the opening of the Olympic Games in Moscow. “O-O-O-O-O,” Brezhnev says. An aide pulls him by his elbow: “Comrade Brezhnev, these are the Olympic rings.

The late Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev`s son ... marking the 80th anniversary of Brezhnev`s birth that social problems under Brezhnev routinely were covered up and an attitude of ”anything ...

While the Helsinki conference did not play a large role in arms control, we had scheduled two bilateral side meetings with Russia’s leader, Leonid ... pushed his way up to Brezhnev.

On this day in 1960, Leonid Brezhnev became chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, making him the nominal head of state, although real power in the Soviet Union resided with Nikita ...

Leonid Brezhnev, born 110 years ago, on Dec. 19, 1906, was head of Soviet Union for 18 years. The long Brezhnev era is now considered either an era of tranquil stability or a period of stagnation ...

Twelve years after the death of Leonid ... Brezhnev’s books, which were ghost written at public expense. But the family went to court and won them back-although inflation soon gobbled up their ...

There, I discovered that the only two cars in the museum are both Ford products, and I learned about a near-disaster in a Lincoln with noted car freak Leonid Brezhnev ... to move up from ...

According to letters and notes collected and translated by the Wilson Center, the former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sent a letter ... currently completely eaten up by the Middle Eastern affairs.” ...

has drawn critical comparisons to long-serving Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. While many in Russia and the West see Mr. Brezhnev's reign as one of stagnant totalitarianism, for Mr. Putin's ...