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	Leonid Brezhnev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brezhnev's assertion that the Soviet Union had the right to interfere in the internal affairs of its satellites to "safeguard socialism" became known as the Brezhnev Doctrine, although it was really a restatement of existing Soviet policy, as Khrushchev had shown in Hungary in 1956.
		Brezhnev belonged to the first generation of Soviet Communists who had no adult memories of Russia before the revolution, and who were too young to have participated in the leadership struggles in the Communist Party which followed Lenin's death in 1924.
		In May Brezhnev visited West Germany, and in June he made a state visit to the U.S. The high point of the Brezhnev "detente" era was the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975, which recognised the postwar frontiers in eastern and central Europe and in effect legitimised Soviet hegemony over the region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev (2743 words)

	Leonid Brezhnev, 1906-1982
		Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, was born at Kamenskoye, Ukraine.
		Brezhnev was soon promoted to first secretary of the Kazakstan Communist Party (1955), and in 1956 he was reelected to his posts on the CPSU Central Committee and in the Politburo.
		When Stalin died (March 1953), Brezhnev lost his posts on the Central Committee and in the Politburo and had to accept the position of deputy head of the political department of the Ministry of Defense with the rank of lieutenant general.
	www.historyguide.org /europe/brezhnev.html (862 words)

	Brezhnev - MSN Encarta
		Leonid Ilich Brezhnev was born in Kamenskoye (present-day Dniprodzerzhyns’k, Ukraine) in the southwestern territory of the Russian Empire.
		Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1964 to 1982.
		Brezhnev lost his candidate membership and was appointed deputy head of the political arm of the armed forces.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761551585/Brezhnev_LeonicIlich.html (1091 words)

	CNN Cold War - Profile: Leonid Brezhnev
		Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, leader of one of the two most powerful nations in the world, was born to Russian parents in the Ukrainian mining town of Kamensk in 1906.
		Brezhnev himself was one of the primary beneficiaries of Khrushchev's ouster.
		After Stalin's death, Brezhnev correctly tied his fortunes to Nikita Khrushchev, helping the new Soviet premier pursue his "Virgin Lands" agricultural campaign in Kazakstan (where Brezhnev was serving as first secretary of the Communist Party), and in supporting Khrushchev during an aborted attempt to remove him from power.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/brezhnev (577 words)

	EefyWiki - Leonid Brezhnev
		Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev died on November 10, 1982 from a heart attack.
		During Brezhnev’s reign, the Soviet Union made some technological advances, however perhaps not to the extent of the U.S. As far as foreign relations, Brezhnev developed his concept known as the Brezhnev Doctrine which basically states that the Soviet Union can use force anywhere there is a threat to socialism.
		Brezhnev focused on the external components (military and foreign affairs) of the Soviet Union and put other people (such as Aleksey Kosygin, Nikolay Podgorny, and later Mikhail Gorbechev) in charge of the internal issues and relations with noncommunist states.
	eefy.editme.com /LeonidBrezhnev (754 words)

	Leonid Brezhnev - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Leonid Brezhnev
		In 1960, as criticism of Khrushchev mounted, Brezhnev was moved to the ceremonial post of state president and began to criticize Khrushchev's policies openly.
		Brezhnev was removed from these posts after Stalin's death in 1953, but returned in 1956 with Khrushchev's patronage.
		Domestically he was conservative; abroad the USSR was established as a military and political superpower during the Brezhnev era, extending its influence in Africa and Asia.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Leonid+Brezhnev (344 words)

	Brezhnev - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Brezhnev, Leonid Ilich (1906-1982), general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1964 to 1982.
		Brezhnev Doctrine, term used in the West for the justification Leonid Brezhnev and other Soviet leaders articulated for the August 1968 Soviet-led...
		The city is the site of the Kama truck plant, which began production in 1976....
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Brezhnev.html (96 words)

	Luba Brezhnev - The World I Left Behind - Detroit Free Press Review
		For 28 years, until his death in 1982, Leonid Brezhnev ruled the Soviet Union.
		Luba, the daughter of Brezhnev's brother and confidante, Yakov, was plucked from the backwater of Dnepropetrovsk and whisked to Moscow to take her place among the communist elite's "brat pack" - the favored offspring of the power brokers and party hacks.
		Brezhnev's sorrow and crying fits over his nymphomaniacal daughter, Galina, whom he described as an "open sore" is the most revealing aspect of his life yet published.
	www.brezhnev.com /revdfp.htm (508 words)

	Brezhnev, Leonid. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
		Brezhnev eventually became the head of government of the Soviet Union and served until his death in 1982.
		Brezhnev had the Soviet army invade Afghanistan in 1979 to keep a government friendly to the Soviets in power.
		The Soviet Union under Brezhnev was marked by a stagnating economy and widespread corruption.
	www.bartleby.com /59/10/brezhnevleon.html (200 words)

	Leonid Brezhnev
		Leonid Brezhnev, the son of a steelworker, was born in Kamenskoye, in the Soviet Union in 1906.
		Brezhnev had come to power in October 1964, as a result of a compromise between the groups which ousted Khrushchev.
		In a political sense, Brezhnevism was nothing but a conservative reaction against Khrushchev's attempt at reforming the authoritarian model of his time.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /COLDbrezhnev.htm (1594 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY 10 1982: Brezhnev rumours sweep Moscow
		Leonid Brezhnev ousted Russia's former leader, Nikita Khrushchev, in a coup in 1964.
		Leonid Brezhnev was succeeded by another Communist hardliner, Yuri Andropov, the former head of the secret police.
		The following day an official announcement was made of Leonid Brezhnev's death.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/10/newsid_2516000/2516417.stm (422 words)

	MSPEDIA - LEONID BREZHVEV
		Brezhnev was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union in 1950, and he became a member of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union's Communist party in 1952.
		In May 1976 Brezhnev became a marshal of the Soviet Union; except for Stalin, he was the only Communist party chairman also to hold the highest Soviet military rank.
		The disgraced name of Brezhnev was removed from a city, at the request of its citizens, and from streets, squares, and public buildings.
	homepage.eircom.net /~manics/MSPedia/Brezhnev.htm (505 words)

	AllRefer.com - Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biographies
		Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev[lAyOnEd´ ilyEch´ brezh´nef] Pronunciation Key, 1906–82, Soviet leader.
		Under Mikhail Gorbachev, Brezhnev's regime was criticized for its corruption and failed economic policies.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Brezhnev.html (439 words)

	Leonid Brezhnev
		Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich (1906-1982), was head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death.
		Brezhnev and Khrushchev, a member of the Communist Party's Politburo, a top executive group, became strong political allies.
		Several years after Brezhnev's death, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev blamed many of the country's problems on Brezhnev.
	www.worldbook.com /features/berlinwall/html/leonid_brezhnev.htm (320 words)

	Leonid Ilich Brezhnev
		For this reason, the Brezhnev era was later dubbed the "period of stagnation." Brezhnev suppressed (1968) reform Communism in Czechoslovakia and formulated the Brezhnev Doctrine, which asserted the USSR's right to intervene against "anti-socialist degeneration" within the Soviet bloc.
		Brezhnev first ruled the country in tandem with Prime Minister Aleksei KOSYGIN and later as the first among the "collective leadership" of the party.
		In the postwar years Brezhnev worked under Nikita KHRUSHCHEV in Ukraine, later serving as Communist party chief in Moldavia (1950-53) and Kazakhstan (1954-56).
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/7477/brezhnev.htm (325 words)

	Leonid Brezhnev
		The legacy of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev will be remembered as twofold: During his tenure in power, the longest of any Soviet other than Joseph Stalin, Brezhnev helped to elevate the Soviet Union to unparalleled levels of prestige, power, and peace among the populace, through his superior negotiating skills on the world diplomatic stage.
		Brezhnev publicly derided Dubcek as “revisionist” and “anti-Soviet,” and invoked provisions of the Warsaw Pact to invade the Soviet satellite.
		Brezhnev was born in Ukraine in December 1906 to a steelworking family.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1883.html (1193 words)

	Leonid Brezhnev Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com
		Leonid Ilych Brezhnev (December 19, 1906- November 10, 1982) was a Soviet politician and First/General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, who was born in Kamenskoye (now Dneprodzerzhinsk) in the Ukraine.
		As both head of the Communist Party since 1964 and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1977 until his death in 1982, Leonid Brezhnev ruled the Soviet Union longer than any previous leader except Stalin.
		Others note the economic inefficiency that became notorious under Brezhnev, the repression of those who disagreed with the Soviet regime and the environmental vandalism that occurred throughout the country.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/l/le/leonid_brezhnev.html (303 words)

	Engology.com, Engineer Leonid Brezehnev,Former President of Russia,Bio
		The decline of Brezhnev's health was paralleled by the waning solidarity of Soviet power, as was evidenced by an increasing number of dissenting voices within the country such as Andrei Sakharov.
		After the outbreak of the war, Brezhnev served in the branch of the Red Army responsible for political indoctrination.
		In 1960, with Khrushchev's support, Brezhnev was chosen chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
	www.engology.com /eng5brezhnev.htm (745 words)

	Brezhnev Doctrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Brezhnev Doctrine was superseded by the facetiously named Sinatra Doctrine in 1988.
		The doctrine was used to justify the invasions of Czechoslovakia that terminated the Prague Spring in 1968 and of the non-Warsaw Pact nation of Afghanistan in 1979.
		Wikisource has original text related to this article:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brezhnev_doctrine (187 words)

	CNN Cold War - Historical Documents: Brezhnev's conversation with Dubcek
		On August 13, 1968, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and Czechoslovakian President Alexander Dubcek discussed the situation in Czechoslovakia.
		Brezhnev: Sasha, that's true, and we warned you at the time that the rightist forces will not easily give up their positions and that it would of course be impossible to do everything in just two to three days.
		Brezhnev: Sasha, I'd like to believe you, but you must understand me. What troubles me most of all is that you haven't dismissed the three whom we agreed to dismiss, and this leaves a very big question.
	edition.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/14/documents/call (6562 words)

	BBC NEWS Europe Russians remember Brezhnev
		It is exactly 20 years since the former Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, died.
		Perhaps the worst part of Brezhnev's legacy was that the Soviet Union continued to slide into poverty after his death because of the inability of the Communist Party leadership to accept reform.
		Brezhnev was replaced by another sick man, Yuri Andropov.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/2438187.stm (398 words)

	Khruschev’s Fall
		One of the leaders of the Stalinist faction was Leonid Ilich Brezhnev.
		Kosygin became Premier, and Leonid Brezhnev became First Secretary of the Communist Party.
		Brezhnev led the deposition of Khruschev in 1964.
	www.gfsnet.org /msweb/sixties/khruschevsfall.htm (275 words)

	Leonid Brezhnev
		New York : Leonid I. Brezhnev : Pages from His Life.
		Leonid I. Brezhnev : His Life and Work.
		The Brezhnev Politburo and the Decline of Detente.
	www.multied.com /bio/people/brezhnev.html (116 words)

	Brezhnev - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		As Leonid Brezhnev suggested in an address to the 24th...Czechoslovakia in the late 1960 s, Brezhnev apparently decided that it was safer...in the minds of Soviet planners, so Brezhnev insisted on a West German commitment...
		LEONID BREZHNEV gave his name to a doctrine in 1968 when he declared that Communist gains were irreversible-invading Czechoslovakia to demonstrate what he meant.
		BREZHNEV, LEONID ILYICH layoned ilyech brezh nef, 1906 82...political setback following Joseph Stalin s death (1953), Brezhnev filled a number of party posts.
	www.questia.com /SM.qst?act=search&keywordsSearchType=1000&keywords=Brezhnev (1602 words)

	[Leaders' Writings]
		Brezhnev, Leonid I. We are optimists: Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to the twenty-sixth Congress of the CPSU.
		Report of the CPSU Central Committee to the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, delivered by Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, March 30, 1971.
		The great victory of the Soviet people; report by Leonid I. Brezhnev, at a meeting devoted to the 20th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic war.
	daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu /research_portal/sov_hist_eng/leaders.html (7368 words)

	Monument to Brezhnev to Be Erected in South Russian City - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM
		A monument to the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, will be erected in the south Russian city of Novorossiisk.
		Leonid Nevzlin, a vocal critic of the Kremlin, casts doubts on the credibility of the statement made by the chief of the Russian delegation.
		Brezhnev became a symbol of Soviet life during the second half of the 20th century.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2004/08/24/brezhnev.shtml (610 words)

	Leonid Brezhnev
		Leonid I. Brezhnev Leonid I. Brezhnev, who in 1960 had become chairman of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet, replaced Nikita Khrushchev as first secretary of the Soviet Union after Khrushchev was ousted from power on Oct. 14, 1964.
		In July 1964, Anastas Ivanovich succeeded Leonid Brezhnev as chairman of the presidium.
		Due to his position in the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev held an advantage, and by 1970 was clearly the most powerful person in the country.
	www.radessays.com /viewpaper.php?request=67625 (245 words)

	499: LEONID ILYICH BREZHNEV - Signature House - Liveauctioneers
		Brezhnev has boldly signed on fourth page in violet ink the year he was awarded the Order of Lenin for work in the reconstruction of Zaporozhstal Steel Factory.
		After the outbreak of WW II, Brezhnev served in the branch of the Red Army responsible for political indoctrination and eventually achieved the rank of major general.
		When he returned to civilian life in 1946, he continued to move steadily ahead as a party official.
	www.liveauctioneers.com /s/lot-92801.html (184 words)

	Brezhnev (1981) To promote peace and good-neighbour relations: On the visit of Leonid Brezhnev to the Federal Republic of Germany, November 22-25, 1981 : speeches, statements, resolutions
		Brezhnev (1981) To promote peace and good-neighbour relations: On the visit of Leonid Brezhnev to the Federal Republic of Germany, November 22-25, 1981: speeches, statements, resolutions
		To promote peace and good-neighbour relations: On the visit of Leonid Brezhnev to the Federal Republic of Germany, November 22-25, 1981: speeches, statements, resolutions
		Soviet Union; Germany (West); Foreign relations; 1975-; Visits of state; Brezhnev, Leonid Il§ich
	www.getcited.org /?PUB=102259794&showStat=Ratings (130 words)

	Brezhnev, Leonid Ilich - Related Items - MSN Encarta
		Soviet policy, both foreign and domestic, showed signs of uncertainty, largely as a result of the failing health of Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev.
		Brezhnev, Leonid Ilich - Related Items - MSN Encarta
		Saddled with an aging leadership, the government of the Soviet Union seemed to mark time for most of the year.
	encarta.msn.com /related_761551585_7/death.html (71 words)

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