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1 THE BREZHNEV ERA

2 Reaction to de-Stalinization & Khrushchev’s missteps
THE BREZHNEV ERA GERONTOCRACY Reaction to de-Stalinization & Khrushchev’s missteps Replaced by conservative colleagues led by LEONID BREZHNEV Brezhnev Aleksei Kosygin & Nikolai Podgornii

3 THE BREZHNEV ERA GERONTOCRACY Re-imposed Stalinist system, but without terror Political dictatorship Party control over all aspects of Soviet life Command economy Propaganda & manipulation of media Suspicious & confrontational attitude towards outside world

4 THE BREZHNEV ERA CRACKS IN THE BLOC The Prague Spring Late arrival of de-Stalinization in Czechoslovakia ALEXANDER DUBCEK: “Socialism with a Human Face” Warsaw Pact invasion Adoption of “Brezhnev Doctrine”

5 THE BREZHNEV ERA ECONOMIC STAGNATION & DELCINE Low productivity Overemployment Declining food supply Inadequate infrastructure

6 ECONOMIC STAGNATION & DELCINE
THE BREZHNEV ERA ECONOMIC STAGNATION & DELCINE Depletion of natural & human resources Environmental damage Inherent flaws of “command-administrative” system Shrinking Aral Sea

7 Nomenklatura system thrived
THE BREZHNEV ERA CORRUPTION Nomenklatura system thrived Bribery, stealing & cheating commonplace Black market “Mafiazation” of police, factory managers, party Party member shopping at Beriozhka

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