Question by Emily l: was brezhnev as nice as khrushchev?
Did Brezhnev have the same ideas about the thaw as khrushev did?
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Answer by wildcats115
Nice? Nice isn’t a word ever used to describe either of them. You realized they weren’t Russian hairstylists right?
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Spellbound says
No Brezhnev was not nearly as nice as Khrushchev (if that's the right word to describe him)
Brezhnev was concerned about the way that Khrushchev ruled, his changes to the party to government and to society. Brezhnev was more or less a Stalinist, he wanted a stable, and compliant country. He reversed many of Khrushchev's political and social reforms, and re-installed a form of Stalinist oppression. Dissidents were not executed, but the more prominent ones were deemed to be mentally ill and put into secure mental homes until they were "better".
This desire for stability led to a policy of "stability of cadres" – people in the party more or less kept their jobs for life. By the late 1970s the country was said to be a gerontocracy – a country ruled by the elderly.
See:
The Soviet Union 1917 – 1991 by Martin MacCauley