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 ...

Carpetblogger marks Leonid Brezhnev's 100th birthday with a Brezhnev joke: “Stalin, Krushchev and Brezhnev were riding on a train. The train comes to a halt in the middle of nowhere. Stalin yells out: ...

Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as general secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like most Russian apparatchiks who excessively smoked, drank and gained weight, he aged ...

The U.S. took for granted during the Cold War that Soviet foreign policy was driven by the tenets of Marxism-Leninism toward imperial expansion and subversion. Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid ...

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union as General Secretary of the governing Communist Party (1964–1982) and as Chairman of the ...

To cure me seemed hard even to Him who created me. —The Knight in the Leopard Skin Tariel, the knight in the leopard skin, was the great folk hero of Georgia —before Joseph Stalin came along. To the ...

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 ...

When I learned from my friend that he would be producing a movie on Ronald Reagan’s life and that he wanted me for the role of Leonid Brezhnev, the leader of the Soviet Union, my ego thought "oh a ...