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 ...

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 ...

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.