The Countdown to Conflict with Venezuela Looks Nothing Like the Run-Up to the Iran Strikes Why Angela Merkel is like the former Soviet leader There was a time when Angela Merkel, like many young East ...
Schattenberg suspects that her biography of Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet Union’s leader from 1964 to 1982, may be read as an apologia. Indeed, on too many occasions, she tends to give Brezhnev the ...
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 ...