By Brezhnev’s late 60s and early 70s, he was too ill to travel abroad or make public appearances. Indeed, his debility left the Soviet Union without a real leader for the final six or seven ...

The story of the Soviet leader’s time in power, his policies against Jews, and his relationship with Israel and Zionism NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV (R) and Leonid Brezhnev wave from Lenin’s Tomb in ...

A damaged apartment after a rocket attack in the city of Kharkiv in Ukraine. The once-thriving neighborhood of Northern Saltivka in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, 20 miles from the Russian border, is ...

TASS/. The Oktyabrsky District Court in the Russian city of Novosibirsk has rejected a lawsuit filed by Andrey Brezhnev, the grandson of late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, demanding compensatory ...

Russia’s Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier has a long and infamous history. Originally meant to serve as the flagship of the ...

SIMFEROPOL, July 11. /TASS/. Andrey Brezhnev, the grandson of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, has died in Crimea of heart attack, a local party official told TASS. "Yes, indeed, he has ...

Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev wanted a better relationship with America, and U.S. president Richard Nixon, who was worried about the possibility of nuclear war and preoccupied by the Vietnam ...

To be sure, defense spending was an extraordinary burden on the Soviet economy. As early as the 1970s some officials warned Leonid Brezhnev that the economy would stagnate if the military ...

Multiple versions of modernism emerged: the local modern and the Soviet-hybrid. The 1970s brought another paradigmatic shift. Under Brezhnev, Soviet society as a whole adopted a westernized lifestyle.