... Connally Alexander Haig Leonid Brezhnev Alexei Kosygin Andrei Gromyko Petro Shelest Linebacker I North Vietnam Good God, I mean, we can’t go [to Moscow] with Russian tanks and Russian guns killing South Vietnamese and Americans. Hell, no, we’re not going to go. We won’t go. It isn’t just...

... with Leonid Brezhnev, Gromyko, and others. The chapter describes the domestic protest of Nixon’s bombing, including the leadership of Senator George McGovern on the issue. Once again, Alexander Haig becomes the most trusted White House advisor, and does a rapid fact-finding trip to South Vietnam. The chapter...

... in 1953 and the eventual assumption of power by Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev, whose removal ushered in a third and final period for the friendship-treaty system under his successor, Leonid Brezhnev. friendship treaties Brezhnev Leonid China Czechoslovakia Khrushchev Nikita Poland Roosevelt...

... Adolf summitry conservatism imperialism newspapers journals Conference on European Security Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe CSCE Kissinger Henry triangularity German question Willy Brandt Egon Bahr Willi Stoph Leonid Brezhnev Erfurt Kassel détente Ostpolitik German...

...-20s Bonn Guadeloupe Vienna Helmut Schmidt Jimmy Carter Leonid Brezhnev Valéry Giscard d’Estaing James Callaghan It looked like a fun occasion. Four middle-aged men, sitting around the table in a beach hut in the Caribbean, as if waiting for their first round of drinks (see Figure 5.1...

... Yao Yilin Second Cold War Tashkent speech Taiwan Deng Xiaoping Leonid Brezhnev In March 1982 Soviet General Secretary Leonid Il'ich Brezhnev visited Tashkent, in Uzbekistan, to spend a few days in the company of his friend Sharaf Rashidov, a corrupt local tyrant who had made millions from...

... could regroup. This created a precedent for future deployment of regular Soviet formations, but also aroused protest in Soviet military and political circles as the USSR’s own defenses were depleted. However, General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev quashed all opposition in Party councils as well as Warsaw...

... aviation historian Operation Kavkaz Mohammed Heikal Leonid Brezhnev Gamal Abdel Nasser War of Attrition Strela anti-aircraft missile SAM-3 missile MiG-21 fighter By mid-1969, small-scale precedents had been created for the deployment of regular Soviet formations in Egypt as tripwires or even...

... Egyptian military formations GRU Soviet MI Ivliev Nikolay Soviet naval officer and intelligence operative New York Times NYT Ryabov Mikhail Soviet interpreter SAM–3 Pechora SAM–6 Kub Submarines Port Said Egypt United States Navy Sixth Fleet Evgeny Primakov Henry Kissinger Leonid Brezhnev Andrey...

... a costly alert in April; US statesman Henry Kissinger took credit for getting the Soviets to make Egyptian President Anwar Sadat delay the offensive until after a summit with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in California in June. But evidence shows that the ultimate timing of a joint offensive with Syria...

... World War II Soviet journalism Soviet press Soviet newspapers economic reform Leonid Brezhnev Alexei Kosygin sociology When Leonid Brezhnev took power in October 1964, he did so as the inheritor of Khrushchev’s reforms, rather than their gravedigger. Scientific decision-making, cybernetics...

... neither the commission nor its sub‐units held a single meeting. Most of Khrushchev's remaining reforms were reversed by the time of the Central Committee Plenum in September 1965. Leonid Brezhnev inherited a twin problem from his predecessor: the dependence of ethnic elites on the centre was continuing...

... Helmut Schmidt West Germany defence intellectual Cold War détente Ostpolitik Henry Kissinger Bundeswehr Leonid Brezhnev arms control SALT For Schmidt, Germany’s security had two essential dimensions. In the early years of his chancellorship, as we have seen, the economic stability of the West...

... the triple succession to Leonid Brezhnev. Mikhail Gorbachev's leadership and his reform line were both confirmed at the Twenty-seventh Congress as the outcome of the triple succession. Communist Party and Andropov Communist Party congresses “Totalitarian model ” Central Committee membership age...

... in March 1985. Gorbachev tried his best to reverse the traditional relationship between the holders of power and the intelligentsia, whose role in reform and national progress he apparently acknowledged. By the end of Leonid Brezhnev's era, the continued power of the neo-Stalinist bureaucracy seemed...

...This chapter describes events in the history of Soviet theater and arts from 1917 to 1919. The period known as Stagnation—owing to the smug, stolid, and increasingly arteriosclerotic leadership of Leonid Brezhnev—also saw the most exciting upsurge in theatrical creativity since the 1920s. Audiences...

...This chapter highlights the author's return to Moscow as the Washington Post's correspondent. The mood in Moscow had changed; the seventy-four-year-old Leonid Brezhnev, in power for seventeen years, was surrounded by an aging leadership that valued stability and its privileged way...

...This chapter turns to international affairs, relating how Carter went to Vienna to meet with Leonid Brezhnev and sign the SALT II agreement with the Soviet Union. After several days of negotiations the two heads of state came to an agreement, and Brezhnev sealed it with a kiss on Carter’s cheek...

... of the Central Committee he had been accorded in 1978. It was only after the death of Leonid Brezhnev in November 1982, however, and the choice of Andropov to succeed him, that Gorbachev entered the inner circle of the leadership. He was unusual for a Politburo member in consulting widely among social scientists...

...Figure 7.1 Georgi Vins in 1979, shortly after his expulsion from the USSR. From left to right, the exchanged prisoners are Aleksandr Ginzburg, Valentyn Moroz, Edward Kuznetsov, Georgi Vins, and Mark Dymshits. Alamy. This chapter moves chronologically to the era of Leonid Brezhnev, when the penal...