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Leonid Brezhnev: Communist Party
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Leonid Brezhnev was born on Dec. 12, 1906, in Kamenskoe (now Dneprodzerzhinsk), a metallurgical center in the Ukraine. A member of a working-class family, he was obliged to leave school at the age of 15 and go to work. But he continued to study as a part-time student of surveying at a vocational secondary school, and graduated at the age of 21. In the years immediately following, Brezhnev held a number of minor government posts and at that time ... joined the Communist party. Then he enrolled in the Kamenskoe Metallurgical Institute, graduating in 1935 as a metallurgical engineer. The field of engineering engaged him only briefly, however, for he soon became involved in government and party work.
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Leonid Ilich Brezhnev was born on Dec. 19, 1906, in Kamenskoye (now Dneprodzerzhinsk) in the Ukraine. In 1923 he joined Komsomol, the Communist youth organization. His political career began when he joined the Communist party in 1931. A graduate of the Dneprodzerzhinsk Metallurgical Institute in 1935, he worked as an engineer and director of a technical school. He ... held a number of local party posts. By 1939 he was the secretary of the regional party committee of Dnepropetrovsk.
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In the late 1960s-early 1970s, Leonid Brezhnev did not take sides when the liberals from magazine Novy Mir clashed with the nationalists from Molodaya Gvardia and orthodox conservatives from Oktyabr. True, Tvardovsky's Novy Mir was routed, but the informal Russian Party and even the Stalinists received a terrible blow. Unable to cope with his magazine's defeat, Tvardovsky died in 1971. But the untalented editor of the conservative Oktyabr, Vsevolod Kochetov, committed suicide in 1973.
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Leonid Ilich Brezhnev was born in Kamenskoye (present-day Dniprodzerzhyns’k, Ukraine) in the southwestern territory of the Russian Empire. The son of a steel worker, he moved with his family to Kursk Oblast, where he studied at a college for land surveyors. In 1931 he returned to Dniprodzerzhyns’k, where he became a member of the Communist Party and in 1935 completed his studies at a metallurgical institute.
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Nikolai Baibakov, Chairman of the GOSPLAN of the USSR recalls: “All participants in the October Plenary meeting of 1964 were able to take a deep breath when Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev finally took over as party head. Everyone was well aware how good natured and friendly Leonid Ilyich was. His handsome face with its thick eyebrows seemed calm and dignified. As he sat at the presidium table his features seemed deep in thought and promised all participants of the Plenary meeting a tranquil and well-provided for life.”
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