Brezhnev
Cold War leader
Brezhnev refers to Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader from 1964 to 1982, whose long tenure became synonymous with political stagnation, economic decline, and rigid authoritarianism.
The name often appears in historical discussions of Cold War détente and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
The Brezhnev Doctrine asserted the USSR's right to intervene in socialist countries: Czechoslovakia learned the Brezhnev Doctrine firsthand in 1968.
Top organizational leader title
- PolitburoCommunist party's governing body
- KremlinMoscow's fortified government seat
- Soviet leaderUSSR head of state
- stagnationAbsence of flow or progress
détente · apparatchik · Central Committee · doctrine · hardliner · autocrat · gerontocracy · cult of personality
Easing of strained relations
- arms raceEscalating weapons accumulation between nations
- Nixon37th U.S. president
- SALTNuclear arms control negotiations
- Helsinki AccordsMultinational European cooperation agreement
superpower · containment · Prague Spring · Afghanistan invasion · Carter · Reagan · missile gap · proxy war
Former communist superpower
- MoscowRussia's capital city
- communismCollective ownership system
- Marxism-LeninismState-led revolutionary socialism
- KhrushchevCold War Soviet premier
Gorbachev · KGB · perestroika · glasnost · Red Square · Pravda
Supreme independent authority
- interventionPurposeful involvement to change course
- Prague Spring1968 Czechoslovak reform period
- CzechoslovakiaFormer Central European republic
- Warsaw PactSoviet-led military alliance
satellite state · sphere of influence · 1968 · normalization
Absence of flow or progress
- 1970sFourth decade, twentieth century
- malaiseDiffuse, sourceless discomfort
- stabilityResistance to displacement
- conservatismPreference for existing institutions
centralization · corruption · samizdat · dissident · refusenik · censorship · conformity · decline
General Secretary
Top organizational leader title
- PolitburoCommunist party's governing body
- KremlinMoscow's fortified government seat
- Soviet leaderUSSR head of state
stagnation · détente · apparatchik · Central Committee · doctrine · hardliner · autocrat · gerontocracy · cult of personality
détente
Easing of strained relations
- arms raceEscalating weapons accumulation between nations
- Nixon37th U.S. president
- SALTNuclear arms control negotiations
Helsinki Accords · superpower · containment · Prague Spring · Afghanistan invasion · Carter · Reagan · missile gap · proxy war · Iron Curtain
USSR
Former communist superpower
- MoscowRussia's capital city
- communismCollective ownership system
- Marxism-LeninismState-led revolutionary socialism
Khrushchev · Gorbachev · KGB · perestroika · glasnost · Red Square · Pravda
sovereignty
Supreme independent authority
- interventionPurposeful involvement to change course
- Prague Spring1968 Czechoslovak reform period
- CzechoslovakiaFormer Central European republic
Warsaw Pact · satellite state · sphere of influence · 1968 · normalization
stagnation
Absence of flow or progress
- 1970sFourth decade, twentieth century
- malaiseDiffuse, sourceless discomfort
- stabilityResistance to displacement
conservatism · centralization · corruption · samizdat · dissident · refusenik · censorship · conformity · decline
- World LeadersChurchill, Winston Churchill, Eisenhower, Gorbachev, Thatcher
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
- communismMarx, Marxism, Leninism, Lenin, proletariat
- Soviet EraUSSR, Soviet Union, Soviet rule, CCCP, Eastern Bloc
- Soviet HistorySoviet Union, USSR, CCCP, Stalin, Kremlin
- Soviet UnionKremlin, Lenin, Stalin, KGB, Sputnik
BrezhnevGorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev · reformer · Khrushchev · Nikita Khrushchev · Deng Xiaoping
BrezhnevRonald Reagan
Richard Nixon · Jimmy Carter · Margaret Thatcher · Gerald Ford · John F. Kennedy
BrezhnevJohn F. Kennedy
Gorbachev · FDR · Franklin Roosevelt · Lenin · revolutionary
- Brezhnev DoctrineSoviet right to intervene