MOSCOW (Reuters) - A plaque commemorating late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev may be restored to the facade of the Moscow apartment building where he lived, in a sign of nostalgia that has been ...
Four decades ago, Leonid Brezhnev led the USSR into what many Soviets called the “era of stagnation.” Vladimir Putin is taking Russia down a similar path. The USSR tried to recover by turning to ...
In the cynical Brezhnev-era Soviet Union—where propaganda clashed with daily deprivation—Putin found a model of power in the romance of espionage. This chapter follows the stories, myths, and ...