Leonid Brezhnev

the cruelty...and the extraordinary number of victims.” Czechoslovak Stalinism needed terror to ensure control because it lacked popular legitimacy. This would remain the case through the presidency of Antonin Novotny and the Soviet rule of Leonid Brezhnev in the mid-to-late 60s, followed by a crucial shift toward…

greatly, appeasing the demands of the people. After living under such a progressive rule, the Soviet citizens inherently detested the re-Stalinization of Leonid…

Communism in the Soviet Union was greatly feared throughout the rest of Europe. From its beginnings in Lenin to the end of it when the Soviet Union fell and Boris Yeltsin became the government leader in Russia, the Red Scare ran throughout not only Europe but the whole world. Lenin was the first to come up with the Communist party, and it was enhanced by Stalin. Stalin became a totalitarian dictator of Russia, and used fear and terror in the Communist Party to enforce their ophilisoihpies.…

try to control the communist country, Cuba, but had to back up in few days. The tension that Soviet missiles had been installed in Cuba made his administration unbalanced. The relationship between President Richard Nixon and Soviet premiere Leonid Brezhnev was marked…

melodious, mixed with high and low pace, leaning towered the upper pitch in a rhythm, just like a protagonist on a neighborhood stage play, an exaggerated version of Bertolt Brecht! I positioned myself next to his bed, added more names after Regan. Leonid Brezhnev, Fidel Castro, Iran's Reza Pahlavi and Ayatollah Khomeini, Afghan’s King Jahir Shah, his cousin Daud. Then it comes Nur Mohammad Taraki, Hafiz Al Amin and Babrak Karmal.…

haggled over whether or not each nation should complete their plans for ABMs; verification of a treaty; and U.S. concern that the Soviets continued to build more Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs). • Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev signed the ABM Treaty and interim SALT agreement on May 26, 1972, in Moscow. • For the first time during the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union had agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals. • SALT I is…

Union the “evil empire” and called for massive increases in U.S. defense spending to meet the perceived Soviet threat. In his public relations duel with Reagan, known as the “Great Communicator,” Andropov, who had succeeded longtime Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev…

Czechoslovakia was a satellite state of the Soviet Union and one that was considered the model satellite state. Antonin Novotny, the first secretary of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party, was replaced by Alexander Dubcek in January of 1968. Dubcek represented the moderate reform element in the party and as a Slovak he also represented the Slovak interests that had been neglected. However, changes in Soviet rule over the Czechs allowed changes to be made in Czechoslovakia. For example, during…

Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States and he served two terms, from 1981-1989. He defeated Jimmy Carter in a landslide of four hundred eighty-nine electoral votes to forty-nine in the election (Reagan). His campaign phrase was “Are you better than you were four years ago? (Jones). Before he was president he was elected Governor of California by a margin of a million votes in 1966 and was re-elected in 1970. Reagan studied economics and sociology at Eureka College and became…

Introduction In 1970, industrialized countries entered a period of structural crisis caused by disproportions in the development of certain spheres and sectors of the economy. The crisis caused the loose of capital from industries with rising costs, forcing them to seek ways to modernize them. Especially acute situation was created in energy-intensive and material-intensive industries, for example, metallurgy. Since the middle of 1970', there were several structural crises and the…