Question by MATHman: What were Brezhnev’s domestic policies?
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Spellbound *JPA RIP says
Brezhnev's policies initially were simply to undo a lot of Khrushchev's reforms; to reunite the party – it had been split between industrial and agricultural wings, to recentralise the party – it had been regionalised, to focus wholeheartedly on heavy industry over light industry, and to reintroduce a more comprehensive form of censorship and to reaffirm the social controls – imprisonment, deportations and, for serious dissidents, locking up in lunatic asylums.
However, in the 1970s – partially as the Soviet Union enjoyed great successes in the olympics, and partially because he realised that the Soviet people were demanding them – he changed the emphasis on heavy industry – opening factories for televisions and many other consumer goods.
See:
Stalinism and After – Alec Nove
The Soviet Union 1917 to 1991 – Martin MacCauley
Russia, A History – Geoffrey Freeze