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Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet leader: head of the Communist Party from October 1964 until his death in 1982, and head of state from 1977.

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Dates
19 Dec 1906 – 10 Nov 1982
Also known as
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Brezhnev
Over time
  1. Life 19 Dec 1906 – 10 Nov 1982
  2. head of Communist Party of the Soviet Union (First Secretary (General Secretary from April 1966)) 14 Oct 1964 – 10 Nov 1982
  3. head of Soviet Union (Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet) 16 Jun 1977 – 10 Nov 1982

Leonid Brezhnev led the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from the fall of Nikita Khrushchev in October 1964 until his death in November 1982, and from 1977 was also head of the Soviet Union.

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Timeline 3 dates
  1. 19 Dec 1906 – 10 Nov 1982 Leonid Brezhnev
  2. 14 Oct 1964 – 10 Nov 1982 Leonid Brezhnev head of Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  3. 16 Jun 1977 – 10 Nov 1982 Leonid Brezhnev head of Soviet Union
Proof 3 sources
  1. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XIV, Soviet Union: list of persons, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
    Brezhnev, Leonid I., First Secretary (General Secretary after April 1966), Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from October 1964
  2. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume III, Soviet Union, January 1981–January 1983: list of persons, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
    Brezhnev, Leonid, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union until his death on November 10, 1982
  3. Soviet Union: A Country Study, Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, 1991. Scholarship & press
    Khrushchev removed from power; Leonid I. Brezhnev becomes CPSU first secretary.
    Brezhnev assumed the chairmanship of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1977, confirming his primacy in both party and state.
    Soon after reviewing the traditional Bolshevik Revolution parade in November 1982, Brezhnev died.
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