Brezhnev, Leonid

*		1907
†		1982

Beruf
Soviet politician, steel worker

Überblick

	1931 enters the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)
	1941-1945 Political Officer in the Red Army
	1950 enters the Supreme Soviet and the Central Committee of the CPSU
	1952/53, 1956-1960, and 1963/64 Secretary of the Central Committee
	1957 member of the Politburo
	1960 President of the USSR
	after Khrushchev’s fall, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU
	1964-1973 Brezhnev supports North Vietnam in the war against the US, but continues the policy of coexistence with the US; asserts in the “Brezhnev doctrine” the right of the USSR to intervene in “brotherly states” if socialism is threatened internally
	August 1968 destruction of the “Prague spring” through military intervention in Czechoslovakia
	1968/69 sharpening of the conflict with the People’s Republic of China
	concludes various arms control agreements with the US (among them, SALT)
	1977 proclamation of a new Constitution for the USSR