Leonid Brezhnev: General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)
Leonid Illich Brezhnev (19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982) was a leader of the Soviet Union.
Born in 1906, Brezhnev was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was effectively the dictator of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982.
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev Леонид Ильич Брежнев | |
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 Brezhnev in 1967 | |
| General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (as First Secretary from 1964 to 1966) | |
| In office 14 October 1964 – 10 November 1982 | |
| President | Anastas Mikoyan (until 1965) Nikolai Podgorny (until 1977) Himself(until his death) |
| Premier | Alexei Kosygin (until 1980) Nikolai Tikhonov |
| Preceded by | Nikita Khrushchev |
| Succeeded by | Yuri Andropov |
| President of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 7 May 1960 – 15 July 1964 | |
| Premier | Nikita Khrushchev |
| Preceded by | Kliment Voroshilov |
| Succeeded by | Anastas Mikoyan |
| In office 16 June 1977 – 10 November 1982 | |
| Premier | Alexei Kosygin Nikolai Tikhonov |
| Preceded by | Nikolai Podgorny |
| Succeeded by | Yuri Andropov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev 19 December 1906 Kamianske, Russian Empire |
| Died | 10 November 1982 (aged 75) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Cause of death | Heart Attack |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Spouse(s) | Viktoria Brezhneva |
| Children | Yuri Brezhnev Galina Brezhneva |
| Residence | 26 Kutuzovsky Prospekt |
| Signature |  |
During the Second World War, Brezhnev was a Political Commissar. He supervised various military units. There, he became a friend of Nikita Khrushchev.
Unlike Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union before him, Brezhnev did not agree with the process of destalinization, and did not support reform. Under Brezhnev, the Soviet economy mostly consisted of military spending. Because the country's resources were going to the armed forces, as they had under Joseph Stalin in wartime, consumer wants were ignored. The standard of living began to fall.
Brezhnev died of a heart attack on November 10, 1982. At over 18 years, Brezhnev was longest ruling Russian Ruler since Stalin until Vladimir Putin broke this record in 2017.
List of wars and uprisings in Europe: WW2 ; Great Patriotic War (1941-1945),Hungarian Revolution of 1956,1968 Warsaw Pact Invasion Of Czechoslovakia
List of wars in Asia: Korean War,Vietnam War,Cambodian Civil War,Cambodian–Vietnamese War,Soviet–Afghan War (1950-1982)
List of wars in Africa and Middle East : Nigerian Civil War,Angolan Civil War,Iran–Iraq War (1967-1982)
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| Preceded by Nikita Khrushchev | General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party 1964–1982 | Succeeded by Yuri Andropov |
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