Brezhnev in a sentence

Brezhnev was interested in this offer initially, but after being told by Andrei Gromyko that the North Vietnamese government was not interested in a diplomatic solution to the war, Brezhnev rejected the offer.

He, with the help of fellow KGB associates, started circulating rumours that political corruption had become worse during Brezhnev's tenure as leader, in an attempt to create an environment hostile to Brezhnev in the Politburo.

His opponents then flocked to Brezhnev, and they helped him in his task of strengthening his position within the Soviet system.sfn Brezhnev was adept at the politics within the Soviet power structure.

In contrast to Brezhnev's policy of avoiding conflicts and dismissals, he began to fight violations of party, state and labour discipline, which led to significant personnel changes during an anti-corruption campaign against many of Brezhnev's cronies.

Novotný then invited Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev to Prague that December, seeking support; Navrátil (2006), pp 18–20 but Brezhnev was surprised at the extent of the opposition to Novotný and thus supported his removal as Czechoslovakia's leader.

Former Kremlin leaders have been on the record as using body doubles, including longtime Soviet supremos Josef Stalin and Leonid Brezhnev.

Putin, who was handed the presidency by Boris Yeltsin on the last day of 1999, has been leader for longer than any other Russian ruler since Josef Stalin, beating even Leonid Brezhnev’s 18-year tenure.

But Vladimir Putin’s rise to power in 2000 has gradually reversed progress to the point where his regime has imprisoned more political prisoners than Leonid Brezhnev in the 1970s.

The sovereignty of nations that rose up against the Brezhnev doctrine.

The gunman had apparently fired on Mr. Leonov’s car thinking Brezhnev was inside, but his car had already peeled off from the motorcade.

During the Cold War, the white sand beaches lining the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were popular with Soviet bigwigs such as Leonid Brezhnev and Boris Yeltsin.

He also covered two presidential elections, three summit meetings between Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, of the former Soviet Union, and “Bloody Sunday,” a day of racial violence in Selma, Alabama, in 1965.

Many Americans wondered how Nixon could offer toasts of peace to Mao Zedong and Leonid Brezhnev while still waging war in Vietnam.

The Americans will respect him as they did Brezhnev, and other Soviet leaders.

The Soviets never intended to occupy Afghanistan for over nine years, but under the Brezhnev Doctrine they would not allow a Soviet sponsored Communist regime to be brought down.

According to American sovietologist Seweryn Bialer, after Leonid Brezhnev 's accession to power in October 1964, the party considerably expanded its appointment authority.

According to one American intelligence expert, United States officials knew for several years that Brezhnev had suffered from severe arteriosclerosis and believed he had suffered from other unspecified ailments as well.

Andropov, "a throwback to a tradition of Leninist asceticism", was appalled by the corruption during Brezhnev's regime, and ordered investigations and arrests of the most flagrant abusers.

Andropov interregnum Brezhnev died on 10 November 1982.

Aside from Zhukov, only Leonid Brezhnev was a four-time recipient (the latter's were self-awarded).