Brezhnev was one letter in a whole chapter. He’s known as the “leader who didn’t do anything” and it’s a bit of an exaggeration, but he kinda just coasted by between Kruschev and Gorbachev.
Conversely, he also didn’t do anything to stop revisionism in the party. But I doubt he could have. By that time the party had been infiltrated by revisionists under Krushev (remember, there’s a reason the CPSU thought Krushev would make a good Secretary General after Stalin). It was probably too late.
Brezhnev was one letter in a whole chapter. He’s known as the “leader who didn’t do anything” and it’s a bit of an exaggeration, but he kinda just coasted by between Kruschev and Gorbachev.
Conversely, he also didn’t do anything to stop revisionism in the party. But I doubt he could have. By that time the party had been infiltrated by revisionists under Krushev (remember, there’s a reason the CPSU thought Krushev would make a good Secretary General after Stalin). It was probably too late.