Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Brezhnev Леонид Брежнев
Brezhnev in East Berlin, April 1967
Born	Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev Леонид Ильич Брежнев 19 December 1906 Kamenskoye, Russian Empire
Died	Zarechye, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union
Cause of death	Heart attack
Nationality	Ukrainian
Ideology	Revisionism (Khrushchevism) Opportunism
Political party	CPSU

Leonid Brezhnev (19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982) was a Soviet revisionist politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982 as well as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1960 to 1964 and again from 1977 to 1982.

Under his 18 year rule of the Soviet Union, he retained most counter-revolutionary policies of his predecessor, Nikita Khrushchev, and greatly expanded the Soviet Union's social-imperialist aims, invading multiple countries. Furthermore, his leadership saw considerable increases in technocracy, bureaucratism, and corruption.

See also

• Nikita Khrushchev
• Restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union
• Soviet revisionism