Leonid Brezhnev

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)

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Lived 1906–1982, aged 76

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1906–1982
Aged 76

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Updated 2026-05-29

Ran the Soviet Union for 18 years straight, making him Stalin's closest competition for longest grip on power. Brezhnev's Cold War tenure defined an era of nuclear standoff and geopolitical chess.

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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982. He also held office as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1960 to 1964 and later from 1977 to 1982. His tenure as General Secretary and leader of the Soviet Union was second only to Joseph Stalin's in duration.

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