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| | Leonid Brezhnev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In 1959 Brezhnev became Second Secretary of the Central Committee and in May 1960 was promoted to the post of President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, making him nominal head of state. | | | Brezhnev became Party First Secretary; Aleksei Kosygin became Prime Minister, and Mikoyan became head of state. | | | Although Brezhnev was not made a Politburo member, he was instead appointed head of the Political Directorate of the Army and the Navy, with rank of Lieutenant-General, a very senior position. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev
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| | Leonid Brezhnev, 1906-1982 |
| | During World War II Brezhnev served as a political commissar in the Red Army, advancing in rank until he became a major general (1943) and head of the political commissars on the Ukrainian front. | | | As head of the party Brezhnev left many affairs of state -- e.g., diplomatic relations with noncommunist states and internal economic development -- to his colleagues Kosygin and Nikolay V. Podgorny, chairman of the Presidium. | | | After graduating (1935), he worked as an engineer and director of a technical school and also held a variety of local party posts; his career flourished under Stalin's regime, and by 1939 he had become secretary of the regional party committee of Dnipropetrovsk. |
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http://www.historyguide.org/europe/brezhnev.html
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| | Leonid Brezhnev |
| | As Khrushchev’s right-hand man, Brezhnev ascended to the post of President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in May 1960, making him the Head of State. | | | As Brezhnev took the title of General Secretary, he spoke positively of Stalin. | | | When the Red Army regrouped and began a counterassault, Brezhnev served under the senior political commissar, Nikita Khrushchev. |
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| | Brezhnev - MSN Encarta |
| | In 1977 Brezhnev replaced Podgorny as chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and thus became head of state as well as head of the Communist Party. | | | From 1960 to July 1964 he served as chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the largely ceremonial position of head of state. | | | Brezhnev was elected as a full member of the Presidium in 1957. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761551585/Brezhnev_LeonicIlich.html
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| | CNN Cold War - Historical Documents: Brezhnev's conversation with Dubcek |
| | This is difficult for me, Comrade Brezhnev, I still have a Party Congress ahead and I am completely unprepared for this Congress. | | | For this same reason we are considering new, independent decisions that would defend both the CPCz and the cause of socialism in Czechoslovakia. | | | If we said that this was all to be decided as soon as possible and before the Congress, this establishes a well-defined deadline. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/14/documents/call
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| | Brezhnev - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library |
| | Overcoming Brezhnev: In Germany, That Is. by David...comparable to the stagnation that Leonid Brezhnev imposed on the Soviet Union for no real...no doubt win votes on a platform that Brezhnev himself would applaud. | | | BREZHNEV, LEONID ILYICH layoned ilyech brezh nef, 1906 82...political setback following Joseph Stalin s death (1953), Brezhnev filled a number of party posts. | | | Yeltsin, old and alienated leaders...Gen, Vladimir Medvedev, who used to be Brezhnevs personal bodyguard, relates in his memoirs... |
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| | EefyWiki - Leonid Brezhnev |
| | Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev died on November 10, 1982 from a heart attack. | | | Good old Leonid was born in the Ukraine to Russian parents in 1906. | | | After a brief stint as part of a "collective leadership," Brezhnev emerged as the dominant power and became the General Secretary of the Communist Party. |
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| | Luba Brezhnev - The World I Left Behind - Detroit Free Press Review |
| | Brezhnev's family was barred from seeing him in his final hours as doctors stood by and did nothing. | | | While we in the West probe so deeply into the peccadilloes of our politicians, the Russians knew little about the private lives of their leaders. | | | For 28 years, until his death in 1982, Leonid Brezhnev ruled the Soviet Union. |
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| | BBC ON THIS DAY 10 1982: Brezhnev rumours sweep Moscow |
| | The delay in confirmation of Mr Brezhnev's death may mean his successor has not yet been chosen. | | | Despite his declining health his grip on power has never weakened and he has outlasted five American presidents. | | | The following day an official announcement was made of Leonid Brezhnev's death. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/10/newsid_2516000/2516417.stm
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| | [Leaders' Writings] |
| | Speech by L. Brezhnev at the 5th Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party on November 12, 1968. | | | The great October revolution and mankind's progress: report at a jubilee meeting of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, November 2, 1977. | | | 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. |
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| | CNN Cold War - Profile: Leonid Brezhnev |
| | Named chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1960, he resigned in 1964 to become Khrushchev's direct assistant as second secretary of the Central Committee. | | | 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. | | | 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. |
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http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/brezhnev
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| | Leonid Ilich Brezhnev |
| | For four years (1960-64) he served as the titular head of the USSR. | | | After helping to oust Khrushchev in 1964, Brezhnev became first secretary (later general secretary) of the Communist party. | | | Brezhnev first ruled the country in tandem with Prime Minister Aleksei KOSYGIN and later as the first among the "collective leadership" of the party. |
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| | Khruschev’s Fall |
| | Kosygin became Premier, and Leonid Brezhnev became First Secretary of the Communist Party. | | | After the unseating of Khruschev, the two offices that he had held were divided back up as they had been between 1955 and 1958. | | | One of the leaders of the Stalinist faction was Leonid Ilich Brezhnev. |
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| | 499: LEONID ILYICH BREZHNEV - Signature House - Liveauctioneers |
| | 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. | | | 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. |
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| | CNN Cold War - Historical Documents: Speech by Leonid Brezhnev |
| | Discharging their internationalist duty toward the fraternal peoples of Czechoslovakia and defending their own socialist gains, the U.S.S.R. and the other socialist states had to act decisively and they did act against the antisocialist forces in Czechoslovakia. | | | It was known in the West as the "Brezhnev Doctrine" and would remain influential until 1989, when Mikhail Gorbachev denounced the policy. | | | CNN Cold War - Historical Documents: Speech by Leonid Brezhnev |
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http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/14/documents/doctrine
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| | Leonid Brezhnev - Todor Zhivkov Crimean meeting, 7 August 1981 |
| | About the meeting in Crimea of Todor Zhivkov, Secretary General of the CC BCP and Chairman of the State Council of the PRB, and Leonid Brezhnev, Secretary General of the CC CPSU and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR | | | Leonid Brezhnev - Todor Zhivkov Crimean meeting, 7 August 1981 | | | ZHIVKOV: Yes, you said this as early as at the meeting in Moscow and you were absolutely right… The so-called course of "renovation" is actually a course of capitulation. |
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| | Monument to Brezhnev to Be Erected in South Russian City - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM |
| | Speaking at a meeting held by Interpol in Minsk amid a boycott by the EU, a senior Russian law enforcer praised Interpol that had allegedly backed Russian arrest warrants issued for self-exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky, Yukos co-founder Leonid Nevzlin, and other people wanted in Russia. | | | Brezhnev became a symbol of Soviet life during the second half of the 20th century. | | | In the 1960s he became the leader of the Communist Party. |
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| | Leonid Brezhnev |
| | Leonid Brezhnev, the son of a steelworker, was born in Kamenskoye, in the Soviet Union in 1906. | | | During the Second World War Brezhnev served as political commissar to the Southern Army. | | | After the war Brezhnev became party boss in Moldavia. |
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| | Leonid Brezhnev |
| | Leonid I. Brezhnev : His Life and Work. | | | New York : Leonid I. Brezhnev : Pages from His Life. | | | After the ouster of Khrushchev, Brezhnev became the leader of the Soviet Union. |
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| | BBC NEWS Europe Russians remember Brezhnev |
| | The ailing Brezhnev was known for his verbal gaffes | | | 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. | | | He had two heart attacks in his latter years, although this was revealed only after Mr Gorbachev's policy of glasnost - openness - set in in the late 1980s. |
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| | 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. | | | The official reasons given for Khrushchev's removal from office were his age, 70, and his declining health. | | | 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. |
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| | 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: |
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| | Leonid Brezhnev |
| | Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was born on December 19, 1906, in Kamenskoe Russian... | | | Find where Leonid Brezhnev is credited alongside another name | | | Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Leonid Brezhnev |
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| | Michigan State University Libraries - Vincent Voice Library |
| | Brezhnev, Leonid Ilich, 1906-;Detente;Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States;Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-;United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union | | | (November 11, 1982) Leonid Brezhnevs death reported with the voic... | | | Map to the VVL in the MSU Main Library |
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| | Power Line: More mush from the wimp |
| | Those of us who lived as adults through the four years of the Carter administration may find Carter's credentials a little wanting, inversely proportionate to his presumption. | | | We recall how Carter proudly announced that the United States had overcome its "inordinate fear of Communism," famously planted a kiss on the cheek of Leonid Brezhnev, and then reacted with shock when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. | | | We also recall how followers of Ayatollah Khomeni took 67 Americans hostage at the American embassy in Tehran. |
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| | 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. | | | 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 |
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| | Luba Brezhnev - The World I Left Behind - The Memoir of Leonid Brezhnev's Niece |
| | Luba Brezhnev - The World I Left Behind - The Memoir of Leonid Brezhnev's Niece | | | As Dramatic as a Russian novel, the memoir of Leonid Brezhnev's Niece. | | | The stirring true story of one woman's world of privilege, persecution, and secrets -- told with passionate intensity and an acute sense of history. |
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| | Soviet-Empire.com Archive :: View topic - I will fight the aspersions |
| | If you can only be here on weekends Brezhnev, why not just GIVE the chairmanship to smith, he's got the position the majority of the time anyway... | | | Anyhow, comrade Leonid Brezhnev, how come you are running for chairman if you can only be here on weekends? | | | Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2002 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| | www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish |
| | How long can we expect this Soviet style regime to continue to stumble onward, normative failure after normative failure? I have no idea. The Brezhnevites eventually gave way to Gorby, but it took the humiliation of Afghanistan to drive the point home." - Eric Alterman, equating a duly elected president with a Communist dictator. | | | To me, the closest historical parallel would be the Soviet politburo under Brezhnev, where loyalty to the faultless was placed above competence and ideological fealty to a discredited belief system held trump over reality... | | | SONTAG AWARD NOMINEE: "What does the new Bush team remind you of? Funny you should ask. |
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