Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Brezhnev Marshal HSU
Леонид Брежнев
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 (1906-12-19)19 December 1906 Kamianske, Russian Empire
Died	10 November 1982(1982-11-10) (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
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Leonid Illich Brezhnev (19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982)^[1] was a leader of the Soviet Union. Born in 1906, Brezhnev's title 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.

During the Second World War, Brezhnev was a Political Commissar. He supervised various military units. There, he became a friend of Nikita Khrushchev.^[2]

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.^[3][4]

Brezhnev died of a heart attack on November 10, 1982.^[5] 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)

1. ↑ "Profile of Leonid Brezhnev". An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996, via Google Books.
2. ↑ Childs, David (2000). The Two Red Flags: European Social Democracy and Soviet Communism Since 1945. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-17181-6.
3. ↑ Hanson, Philip (2003). The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR from 1945. Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-29958-0.
4. ↑ Dowlah, Alex F.; Elliott, John E. (1997). The Life and Times of Soviet Socialism. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-95629-5.
5. ↑ Brown, Archie (2009-06-09). The Rise and Fall of Communism. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-113879-9.