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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev [b] [c] (19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982) [4] was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982, and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (head of state) from 1960 to 1964 and again from 1977 to 1982.
Brezhnev's family, Yuri, Galina and Yuri Churbanov, were investigated and both Yuris were arrested on charges of political corruption during Mikhail Gorbachev's administration. [11] Churbanov, Brezhnev's son-in-law, was sentenced to twelve years in prison on charges of large-scale embezzlement and corruption.
Brezhnev was a young political officer during the war who did reach the rank of lieutenant general, but did not command responsibility close to the other recipients of the Order. He only received the decoration after he was Premier and thus able to essentially award the medal to himself.
At Mikhail Suslov's funeral on 25 January 1982, Brezhnev "seemed confused" by elements of the ceremony, showing uncertainty over when to salute passing troops. While other Politburo members remained standing, Brezhnev was twice seen to move behind the Lenin Mausoleum parapet to sit in a chair and drink liquid from a mug. [14]
However, as Brezhnev increasingly consolidated power, the triumvirate's effectiveness as a guarantor of collective leadership steadily declined. [66] It was ultimately dissolved in 1977 after Brezhnev took Podgorny's place as head of state. [23] Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982) [45] Alexei Kosygin (1904–1980) [45] Nikolai Podgorny (1903–1983) [45]
The history of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, referred to as the Brezhnev Era, covers the period of Leonid Brezhnev's rule of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). This period began with high economic growth and soaring prosperity, but gradually significant problems in social, political, and economic areas accumulated, so that ...
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From 12 January 1972 to 1973, a wide-reaching purge of Ukrainian society and intelligentsia was organised by Leonid Brezhnev and the KGB.Codenamed Operation Bloc (Russian: Операция «Блок», romanized: Operatsiya «Blok»; Ukrainian: Операція «Блок», romanized: Operatsiia «Blok»), the purge resulted in the arrest of 193 people, including most of the leaders of the ...