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Brezhnev

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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
Russian political leader: first secretary of the Soviet Communist party from 1964 to 1982
Era of Stagnation
economic stagnation in the Soviet Union which began during the rule of Leonid Brezhnev and ended with Mikhail Gorbachev
cult of personality
cult promoting adulation of a living national leader or public figure
repression
act of controlling feelings; Brezhnev was known for restricting cultural and intellectual freedoms
KGB
intelligence and internal-security agency of the former Soviet Union
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collective farms
number of farms organized as a unit, worked by a community under the supervision of the state
Kosygin reform
reform to Soviet economic management and planning, carried out between 1965 and 1971
work-shy workforce
workforce that makes an effort to not work
détente
easing of strained relations; Brezhnev's only major foreign policy innovation
Vietnam War
conflict, starting in 1954 and ending in 1975, between South Vietnam (later aided by others) and the Vietcong and North Vietnam

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