Leonid Brezhnev
Date of birth: 1906-12-19
Place of birth: Kamenskoe, Yekaterinoslavskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Леонид Ильич Брежнев, Леонід Ілліч Брежнєв, Леонид Брежнев, Леонід Брежнєв, Léonid Brejnev
Biography
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, born in Kamenskoe, Yekaterinoslav governorate, Russian Empire - Soviet statesman, politician and party figure who held the highest leadership position in the CPSU for 18 years (from 1964 until his death in 1982). First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee in 1964-1966 and General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee from 1966 to 1982. Marshal of the Soviet Union (1976). Four times Hero of the Soviet Union (1966, 1976, 1978, 1981), Hero of Socialist Labor (1961). Candidate member of the Presidium of the Central Committee (1952-1953; 1956-1957), Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1952-1953; 1956-1960, 1963-1964). In 1960-1964 - Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Chairman of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU for the RSFSR from 1964 to 1966. Deputy of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (3rd-10th convocations, 1950-1982). Member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR and the Union of Writers of the USSR. Cavalier of eight Orders of Lenin. Laureate of the International Lenin Prize "For Strengthening Peace Among Nations" (1973) and the Lenin Prize for Literature (1979). In 1978 he was awarded the Order of Victory (in 1989 this award was cancelled by decree signed by the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev as being contrary to the statute of the order). In total, Brezhnev had 117 Soviet and foreign state awards. He participated in the Great Patriotic War and the Victory Parade on Red Square on June 24, 1945 (political officer of the combined regiment of the 4th Ukrainian Front).
Movie Credits
The Society of the Spectacle
1974-05-01
Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
1979-01-01
About the difficult political situation in the world related to the arms race.
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
2010-10-29
The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using
Czechoslovakia 1918-1968
1969-12-31
Short documentary about 50 years of history of Czechoslovakia, with archive images.
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
1996-02-20
Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the m
Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House
1991-01-01
A special that takes a look inside the White House.
Burden of the Gypsies
2016-03-21
A film about the life of the Roma people, the most closed ethnic group today. Influential thieves' c
Going to Hell
2019-01-08
A documentary film exposing the truth about psychics and fortune-tellers. All the ins and outs of ma
Space Sailors
2010-01-21
They were heroes of a special kind. They came from the steppes, the sons of farmers, of factory floo
Venceremos, solidaridad
1973-12-31
Anonymous short documentary released immediately after the Chilean military coup of 1973. It recapit
Urho Kekkonen - valtiomies, presidentti
1967-10-17
Agnelli
2017-12-18
Documentary about the life of Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli, an influential Italian industrialist and pr
:03 from Gold
2002-06-18
The 1972 Olympic men's basketball final, in which Team USA suffered their first ever loss in Games c
Disco and Atomic War
2009-04-10
A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of
1979: Big Bang of the Present
2019-12-10
Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur
Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team
2002-01-08
At the Winter Olympics of 1980, after two tense weeks amidst growing Cold War fears, the U.S. Olympi
The Spy Who Fell to Earth
2019-04-01
Based on Dr. Ahron Bregman's book, this documentary examines the life and mysterious death of Ashraf
The Cars We Drove into Capitalism
2021-10-27
A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist time
The Story of the Communist
1976-12-06
A documentary dedicated to Leonid Brezhnev.
O Sport, You Are Peace!
1981-09-18
A 1981 documentary film directed by Yuri Ozerov. It showed the opening and closing ceremonies of the
Kyiv Symphony
1982-10-20
The film is dedicated to the 1500th anniversary of Kyiv.
Karpov Plays with Karpov
1980-01-01
The film tells about the social activities of the world chess champion Anatoliy Karpov, his scientif
Palme
2012-09-14
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets
Memory of the People
1982-11-12
Dedicated to the memory of L.I. Brezhnev.
The Helsinki Effect
2025-02-21
The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) was the starting point for the slow but
Red Star Over Khyber
1984-12-11
Correspondent Richard Reeves reports on the ongoing struggle of the Afghan Muslim resistance against
A Time For Peace
1973-01-01
"This film documents President Nixon's 1972 trips to the People's Republic of China, the Soviet Unio
Case of Joseph Brodsky
1991-02-07
A 23-year-old man was tried for choosing poetry as his life's work. His poems and translations were
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