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Title: Leonid Brezhnev - Secratary General of the Communist Party
Description: Moscow, 1979. No Binding. Poster, Leonid I. Brezhnev led the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982 as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union). His eighteen-year term as General Secretary was second only to that of Joseph Stalin in duration. Brezhnev enhanced the global influence of the Soviet Union dramatically, in part because of the expansion of its military. Ultimately his tenure as leader allowed the era of economic and social stagnation to take root and this led to the demise of the USSR. Brezhnev evokes nostalgia for some in the former Soviet Union. c1979, approx 17x22.5 inches.. Good.

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