How To Use Brezhnev In A Sentence
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Or, as in the Brezhnev period, they were so emendated in a cretinized two-volume edition of Tkachev's works (in whose introduction the Soviet editors also criticized me and my book on Tkachev ” the first in English about him) as to be unrecognizable ” either as essential Tkachevism or as examples of proto-Bolshevism foreshadowing Lenin's ideology.
Lenin & 'The Radiant Future'
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The general demoralization of Soviet society during the Brezhnev period affected the militia also and by the 1980s widespread corruption was reported.
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The story begins around 1967, when Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union, decided to stage a spectacular midspace rendezvous between two Soviet spaceships.
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Another blare of trumpets signaled that the limousine carrying Brezhnev had entered the Southwest Gate.
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One of the important documents of the intraparty debate on renovation vs. orthodoxy that finally split the PCV was a short book on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia by a former guerrilla leader, Teodoro Petkoff, who was denounced in Pravda just before the PCV split and later by Leonid Brezhnev, in his speech to the Twenty-fourth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, for "nationalist tendencies [with] an anti-soviet character.
Carnival in Caracas
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But we can be sure that Brezhnev will exert every effort to regain the award when he visits Nixon.
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Colin sez, 40-year-old Mikhail Puchkov decided to design and build a personal submarine during the stifling era of Leonid Brezhnev's regime when he was barely twenty years old.
Boing Boing
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He had been appointed to the ruling Politburo as recently as 1978 towards the end of the era of stagnation under Brezhnev.
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Nixon was not about to be bested by Brezhnev in philosophical discourse, however.
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Fidel Castro Ruz, Leonid Brezhnev, the cosmonauts accompanying them went inside the "Salyut" station.
CASTRO, BREZHNEV TOUR COSMONAUT TRAINING CENTER
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This spelled the end of the Brezhnev doctrine, under which Soviet military power enforced the loyalty of its peripheral satellite states.
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Longtime Soviet politburo leader and general secretary of the Communist Party Leonid Brezhnev gave a 3-foot-long crystal drinking horn.
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In the essay, he dissected what he called the "dictatorship of ritual" - the ossified Soviet bloc system under Leonid Brezhnev - and imagined what happens when an ordinary greengrocer stops displaying communist slogans and begins "living in truth," rediscovering "his suppressed identity and dignity.
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Also noteworthy was that he did not find it necessary to dispraise his predecessor, as both Khrushchev and Brezhnev had done.
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But we can be sure that Brezhnev will exert every effort to regain the award when he visits Nixon.
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Brezhnev reintroduced collective responsibility within the Politburo, so as to share the responsibilities of, and to maximize general allegiance towards, the leadership.
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Brezhnev is "first among equals" of course, but his "firstness," however much it derives from a base of collective power, is still of a quality that cannot be challenged.
Brezhnev and After
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But in fact, when Novotny, whom Brezhnev never liked in spite of the Czech leader's vaunted loyalty, was removed, Brezhnev told Novotny, "Eto vashe delo" — That's your problem.
1968 the Year that Rocked the World
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But Andropov was dying of kidney disease, and Konstantin Chernenko, the Brezhnev acolyte who followed, was himself stricken with emphysema.
The Return
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In the essay, he dissected what he called the "dictatorship of ritual" the ossified Soviet bloc system under Leonid Brezhnev and imagined what happens when an ordinary greengrocer stops displaying communist slogans and begins "living in truth," rediscovering "his suppressed identity and dignity.
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As a founding myth, the Russian Revolution was largely displaced by the Second World War, and the Brezhnev regime seemed more committed to gradualism than any Fabian.
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In one dramatic gesture, Gorbachev broke with the policies of the Brezhnev era and unleashed a new program of glasnost.
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Here are the main dates in its history: 1974: Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev gives a speech talking about a new type of ballistic nuclear missile submarine and mentions the word 'typhoon,' prompting Nato to christen the new vessel the Typhoon class.
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