HIST 3203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: De-Stalinization, Helsinki Accords, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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How much were they structural or part of the soviet system itself. He ruled from 1964 - 1985, and they were characterized by their dullness. Renaming these years of stagnation zastoi was a government move from the 80"s. It was a developed socialism, and they used this phrase because they had been claiming to be building socialism for several decades. They also had to do something about krustchav and his claims that full communism was right around the corner. Instead, they cam up with the solution of calling the period they were in developed socialism. They stopped giving dates when the soviet economy would overtake the american. He would become the president as well as secretary. However, the kremlin at the time was filled with agin men. The monopoly on power was the upper mobile". They usually had some sort of technical training, but would become career party people. There would be four decades of these people.
