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Il y a 6 jours · Soviet Union - The Brezhnev era: The new collective leadership was headed by Leonid Brezhnev, party first secretary; Aleksey Kosygin, prime minister; and Nikolay Podgorny, who became president in December 1965. The industrial and agricultural branches of the party apparat were unified; restrictions on the size of household plots and ...
Il y a 1 jour · Russia - Khrushchev, Soviet Union, Cold War: After Stalin’s death in 1953, a power struggle for leadership ensued, which was won by Nikita Khrushchev. His landmark decisions in foreign policy and domestic programs markedly changed the direction of the Soviet Union, bringing détente with the West and a relaxation of rigid controls ...
Il y a 3 jours · Russia - Perestroika, Glasnost, Reforms: When Brezhnev died in 1982, most elite groups understood that the Soviet economy was in trouble. Due to senility, Brezhnev had not been in effective control of the country during his last few years, and Kosygin had died in 1980. The Politburo was dominated by old men, and they were ...
Il y a 1 jour · In 1993, a constitutional crisis in Russia led to troops storming the Russian parliament building and a new constitution that strengthened Boris Yeltsin’s hold on power. Jeff Hawn argues that prior to the crisis, Russia was on course to becoming a genuine democratic state. The last decade of the 20th century in many ways laid the path for the ...
Il y a 17 heures · Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev responded by reversing Khrushchev's policy of disengagement and increasing aid to the North Vietnamese, hoping to entice the North from its pro-Chinese position. The USSR discouraged further escalation of the war, however, providing just enough military assistance to tie up American forces. [ 207 ]
Il y a 2 jours · In October 1964, Khrushchev was deposed by a joint Central Committee and Politburo plenum and succeeded by another collective leadership, this time led by Leonid Brezhnev, born in Ukraine, as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Chairman of the Council of Ministers. [49]
Il y a 2 jours · The Soviet space program pioneered many aspects of space exploration: 1957: First intercontinental ballistic missile and orbital launch vehicle, the R-7 Semyorka. 1957: First satellite, Sputnik 1. 1957: First animal in Earth orbit, the dog Laika on Sputnik 2.
