Leonid Ilʹich Brezhnev

19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982 and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet between 1960 and 1964 and again between 1977 and 1982. His 18-year term as General Secretary was second only to Joseph Stalin's in duration. To this day, the quality of Brezhnev's tenure as General Secretary remains debated by historians. While his rule was characterized by political stability and significant foreign policy successes, it was also marked by corruption, inefficiency, economi

• On the policy of the Soviet Union and the international situation
• Speech by L. I. Brezhnev at the 5th Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party on November 12, 1968
• La nostra linea
• Leonid I. Brezhnev, his Life and Work
• Memoirs
• Peace, détente, and Soviet-American relations
• Rede auf der Konferenz der kommunistischen und Arbeiterparteien Europas Berlin, 29. Juni 1976
• Selected speeches and writings on foreign affairs
• Socialism, democracy, and human rights
• Trilogy
• 47-i︠a︡ [i. e. Sorok sedʹmai︠a︡] godovshchina Velikoĭ Okti︠a︡brʹskoĭ sot︠s︡ialisticheskoĭ revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ii
• 47th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution