Khrushchev’s, and Brezhnev’s practice of secretly assassinating people who stand in their way. Killing always comes with a price, and the Kremlin should be forced to pay it until it will stop ...

In 1968, when Leonid Brezhnev, his hardliner successor, followed his example and sent troops to Czechoslovakia to suppress another anti-communist revolt, the Prague Spring, Khrushchev was crushed.

Gorbachev himself rose inside the Communist Party during the corrupt Brezhnev era. But he, too, joined the party while Khrushchev ran it. Khrushchev`s anti-Stalin speech affected him strongly.

Khrushchev (and Leonid Brezhnev, Alexei Kosygin, and others around him) had lived as adults through the Second World War and had thrived, more or less, under Stalin. The death of scores of ...

In 1964, Nikita Khrushchev was forced to resign, losing power to Leonid Brezhnev. Throughout Brezhnev’s long rule (1964 – 1982), Stalin was neither praised nor criticized. “Under Khrushchev ...

Think of the list of Soviet leaders since Khrushchev was ousted from power: Alexei Kosygin. Nikolai Podgorny. Leonid Brezhnev. Yuri Andropov. Konstantin Chernenko. Mikhail Gorbachev. Now ...

This is a galling personal defeat for both Khrushchev and his heir apparent, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, a Ukrainian who has been his protege during the long, hard-fought battle to raise Russian ...

Brezhnev made the most of these opportunities and was soon viewed as an efficient and effective official in his own right and not simply as Khrushchev’s puppet, his sponsor in his ascent to the ...

Russian state television on Friday evening showed photographs and videos of Khrushchev and Brezhnev at historic events with the young dark-haired Sukhodrev standing just behind them. He was also ...