The Leonid Bretnav Era
- Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
- The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Presiding over the country from 1964 until his death in 1982
- Served an 18 year term
- During Bretnav's rule global influence of the Soviet Union grew dramatically
- Criticized for taking power at the beginning of a period of economic stagnation
- Attempt to govern without meaningful economic reforms led to a national decline by the mid-1970's
- While at the helm of the USSR, Brezhnev pushed for détente
- Sent the Soviet military to Afghanistan in an attempt to save the fragile regime
View Leonid Brezhnev and over 3,000,000 other topics on Qwiki.