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THE BREZHNEV ERA

THE BREZHNEV ERA. THE BREZHNEV ERA. GERONTOCRACY. Reaction to de-Stalinization & Khrushchev’s missteps. Replaced by conservative colleagues led by LEONID BREZHNEV. Brezhnev. Aleksei Kosygin & Nikolai Podgornii. THE BREZHNEV ERA. GERONTOCRACY.

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THE BREZHNEV ERA

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  1. THE BREZHNEV ERA

  2. THE BREZHNEV ERA GERONTOCRACY • Reaction to de-Stalinization & Khrushchev’s missteps • Replaced by conservative colleagues led by LEONID BREZHNEV Brezhnev Aleksei Kosygin & Nikolai Podgornii

  3. THE BREZHNEV ERA GERONTOCRACY • Re-imposed Stalinist system, but without terror • Political dictatorship • Party control over all aspects of Soviet life • Command economy • Propaganda & manipulation of media • Suspicious & confrontational attitude towards outside world

  4. THE BREZHNEV ERA CRACKS IN THE BLOC • The Prague Spring - 1968 • Late arrival of de-Stalinization in Czechoslovakia • ALEXANDER DUBCEK: “Socialism with a Human Face” • Warsaw Pact invasion • Adoption of “Brezhnev Doctrine”

  5. THE BREZHNEV ERA ECONOMIC STAGNATION & DELCINE • Low productivity • Overemployment • Declining food supply • Inadequate infrastructure

  6. THE BREZHNEV ERA ECONOMIC STAGNATION & DELCINE • Depletion of natural & human resources • Environmental damage • Inherent flaws of “command-administrative” system Shrinking Aral Sea

  7. THE BREZHNEV ERA CORRUPTION • Nomenklatura system thrived • Bribery, stealing & cheating commonplace • Black market • “Mafiazation” of police, factory managers, party Party member shopping at Beriozhka

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