HIST 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: Infant Mortality, State Socialism, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
23 Feb 2017
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Brezhnev took over secretary of the party. Risen through the party ranks under krushchev. Aleksei kosygin took over chair of council of ministers. Engineer by trade, but little experience in party. New troika looked like temporary and transistional, 4 reasons. 1, collective leaderships typically temporary and fleeting (1953-1957, etc. ) Eventually gave way to one man rule: lenin, stalin, krushchev. Risen to power through party power base in ukraine. Close to or over sixty give way to a post-stalin leader. 4, would continue krushchev"s reform policy while leadership decided. 3, none were charismatic, they were colourless. 2, these men were hella old behind the scenes. By 1971, emerged he was first among equals. Leadership proved to be anything but temporary: brezhnev was in power for. Consulted with comrades, and if they couldn"t decide nothing would be done. Yelling and dynamic men kept out or removed: became an old man"s club.
