Four decades ago, Leonid Brezhnev led the USSR into what many Soviets called the “era of stagnation.” Vladimir Putin is taking Russia down a similar path. The USSR tried to recover by turning to ...

In many ways, the current battle for Russia's future began 30 years ago this week. On November 10, 1982, Leonid Brezhnev died, sparking a generational change in the Soviet leadership and setting in ...

These traditional Matryoshka, or Russian nesting, dolls bearing the faces of Russian president Vladimir Putin and former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin are seen in a souvenir shop in Kiev, Ukraine, on ...

Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, who ruled the Soviet Union for 18 years from 1964 to 1982, died on November 10, 1982 MOSCOW, November 9 (Itar-Tass) —— Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, who ruled the ...

A trip down memory lane that ends in Putingrad. This week marks the 50th anniversary of Brezhnev deposing Khrushchev. Khrushchev reigned (more or less) from Stalin’s death in March of ’53 till October ...

So, Vladimir Putin just had another Leonid Brezhnev moment. Last year, the current Kremlin leader surpassed the longtime Soviet ruler in longevity in power. And now, after winning a fourth term with ...

In the late 1970s, after suffering a series of strokes and other medical crises that left him increasingly weak and incoherent, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev wrote a boastful diary entry about his ...