Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like most Russian apparatchiks who excessively smoked, drank and gained weight, he aged ...

Like all political leaders, many times the bureaucrats slip in their agenda and in his later years they took advantage of Brezhnev's declining health. Thus greatly increasing the Soviet Union’s ...

Vladimir Putin's attack on Ukraine brings back memories of 1968, when Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sent troops into supposedly independent Czechoslovakia. The Soviet troops "liberated" Czechs ...

In the 1990 film "The Hunt for Red October," a Soviet Navy captain who is disenchanted with the Soviet system defects to the United States with a new, secret submarine propulsion system.

Photo: Image: Mario Tama/Getty Images Thursday’s presidential debate reminded me of an old Soviet joke. Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev presides over the opening of the Olympic Games in Moscow.

Bullish (Video) [Brezhnev Biography, Spanish?, ca. 1976] Posted: February 22, 2025 | Last updated: March 19, 2025 In Spanish? "Brezhnev Biography" is a 1976 Soviet film that serves as a ...

Brezhnev gained a long-elusive legitimation for the borders of the postwar Soviet bloc, convinced that the Soviet leadership was giving nothing in return except unenforceable commitments about the ...

Fed up with such risk-taking, Khrushchev’s Kremlin colleagues deposed him in October 1964, leaving Leonid Brezhnev to gradually consolidate the power he would hold longer than any Soviet leader apart ...

Russia marks on Friday the 80th anniversary of the Soviet and allied victory over Nazi Germany, though there are fears that Ukraine may seek to disrupt the most hallowed celebration in the Russian ...

In the late 1980s, the power of the Soviet Union began to waver, particularly when Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1985. He abandoned the Brezhnev Doctrine ...