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 ...

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.

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 ...

With a fundamentally different playing field today, the United States and its Western partners should adapt, if not adopt, ...

US president Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union, at the signing of SALT I in 1972 There were two Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) agreed between the USA and the ...