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 ...

The history books will not remember Leonid Brezhnev as the most influential of Soviet leaders. His rule, between 1964 and 1982, over a peacetime union was short on geopolitical drama. Instead ...

We have rebranded as 'Gateway to Russia' and now offer even more articles and resources about Russia. On Jan. 22, 1969, the Soviet Union found itself in an unprecedented state of emergency: Just ...

And Reagan was right: Soviet leaders had consistently died on the job. Leonid Brezhnev, who led the USSR for 18 years, died at 75 in 1982. He was followed by Yuri Andropov, who died in 1984 at 69.

The late Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev`s son-in-law, Yuri Churbanov, has been arrested under accusations of bribe-taking and corruption, Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady Gerasimov said Tuesday.

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.

In a move that took him upward in the Soviet power structure, Mr. Gorbachev was elected a secretary of the Central Committee, and he was put in charge of agriculture in Leonid Brezhnev’s final ...