The Leonid Brezhnev Era
*Led Soviet Union from 1964-1982
*Many think this is a period of deterioration for USSR due to party "apparatchiks" left over from the Stalin regime wanted to return to the old status quo
*Made famous the Brezhnev doctrine:
-"It was the right and duty of fraternal socialist countries to intervene in each others affairs when socialism was threatened"
*He makes this while intervening in Czechoslovakia in 1968
*Many think this is a period of deterioration for USSR due to party "apparatchiks" left over from the Stalin regime wanted to return to the old status quo
*Made famous the Brezhnev doctrine:
-"It was the right and duty of fraternal socialist countries to intervene in each others affairs when socialism was threatened"
*He makes this while intervening in Czechoslovakia in 1968
Summary
Brezhnev was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1964-1982 he was most famous for his Docterine.