What ethnicity was Brezhnev?

What ethnicity was Brezhnev?

Brezhnev’s ethnicity was given as Ukrainian in some documents, including his passport, and Russian in others.

What is Brezhnev theory?

The Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet foreign policy that proclaimed any threat to socialist rule in any state of the Soviet Bloc in Central and Eastern Europe was a threat to them all, and therefore justified the intervention of fellow socialist states.

Who replaced Khrushchev?

In October 1964, Brezhnev replaced Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist Party. Despite being the head of the nation’s ruling Party, he initially led the Soviet Union as part of a troika alongside Premier Alexei Kosygin and Presidium Chairman Nikolai Podgorny.