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Brezhnev and the Decline of the Soviet Union (Paperback)
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Brezhnev and the Decline of the Soviet Union (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
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Leonid Brezhnev was leader of the Soviet Union from 1964-1982, a
longer period than any other Soviet leader apart from Stalin.
During Brezhnev's time Soviet power seemed at its height and
increasing. Living standards were rising, the Soviet Union was a
nuclear power and successful in its space missions, and the Soviet
Union's influence reached into all part of the world. Yet, as this
book, which provides a comprehensive overview and reassessment of
Brezhnev's life, early political career and career as leader,
shows, the seeds of decline were sown in Brezhnev's time. There was
a huge over-commitment of resources to the Soviet
industrial-military complex and to massively expensive foreign
policy overstretch. At the same time there was a failure to deliver
on citizens' rising expectations, and an overconfident ignoring of
dissidents and their demands. The book will be of great interest to
Russian specialists, and also to scholars of international
relations and world history.
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