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 ...

While Kuznetsov ’s reentry to service was supposed to commence last year, no clear timeline for the carrier’s return to ...

It was with Leonid Brezhnev’s coming to power in 1964 (he served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union till 1982) that the focus shifted to the many, vast regions of the ...

US president Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union, at the signing of SALT I in 1972 There were two Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) agreed between the USA and the ...

TASS/. The Oktyabrsky District Court in the Russian city of Novosibirsk has rejected a lawsuit filed by Andrey Brezhnev, the grandson of late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, demanding compensatory ...

The struggle within the International Committee between 1982 and 1986 took place against the backdrop of a deepening crisis in the Soviet Union ... replacement by Leonid Brezhnev, and the clamp ...

The Soviet Union was plunged into a power struggle ... Behind the scenes, a coalition of party leaders, including future leader Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin, began plotting his removal.

SIMFEROPOL, July 11. /TASS/. Andrey Brezhnev, the grandson of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, has died in Crimea of heart attack, a local party official told TASS. "Yes, indeed, he has ...

Reviewed by Christopher Bishop (University of Southern Mississippi) ...