Schechtel's Art Nouveau was despised by Soviet critics as rotten formalism until the Brezhnev period.

These steps, the men agree, have broken the lethargy of the Brezhnev period, and made a return to the past unlikely.

But Stalin's wartime role was no longer put in doubt during the Brezhnev period.

Psychiatry of the Brezhnev period was used as a tool to eliminate political opponents ("dissidents"), people who openly expressed their views that contradict officially declared dogmas.

He said that during the Brezhnev period (1964-82) "people thought of me as a brave man because I said things others couldn't."

In the first half of the Brezhnev period, income per head increased by 3.5% per annum; slightly less growth than what it had been the previous years.

The Brezhnev period ushered in an unparalleled period of stability in the party, a stability that ultimately led to stagnation.

And many of the positive trends slowed during the late 1960s and 70s, in the Brezhnev period now damned as the period of 'stagnation'.

The general demoralization of Soviet society during the Brezhnev period affected the militia also and by the 1980s widespread corruption was reported.

To the common Russians some names in this book became synonymous with corruption, nepotism and the Great Cotton Scandal of the late Brezhnev period.