Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev Signed Book.

BREZHNEV, Leonid Ilyich.

Item Number: 139530

Moscow:, 1976.

Rare Russian text signed by Soviet leader Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. 12mo, original boards with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, ribbon bound in. Signed by Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev in Cyrillic on the title page. In fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. Books signed by Brezhnev are rare.

Soviet politician Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1964 and 1982 and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet between 1960 and 1964 and again between 1977 and 1982. His 18-year term as General Secretary was second only to Joseph Stalin's in duration. Brezhnev's tenure as General Secretary remains debated by historians; while his rule was characterized by political stability and significant foreign policy successes, it was also marked by corruption, inefficiency, economic stagnation, and rapidly growing technological gaps with the West.