Stalemate
and
Détente,
1964-1979
, Key concepts
• Realpolitik: real, realistic, it’s politics or
diplomacy based primarily on power
and on practical and material factors
and considerations, rather than
explicit ideological notions or moral or
ethnical premises.
• (Neue) Ostpolitik: refers to the
normalisation of relations between the
FRG, or West Germany and Eastern
Europe, particularly the GDR or East
Germany, beginning in 1969.
, Brezhnev
• 19 December 1906 – 10 November
1982
Role as leader:
• He was a Soviet politician who led
the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982
when he died. He joined (1931) the
Communist party and rose steadily in
its hierarchy. He was the General
Secretary of the Central Committee
(CC) of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union (CPSU).As the leader of
the Soviet Union, Leonid Ilyich
Brezhnev was a canny and careful
Communist Party functionary who
sought to make his country the
military equal of the United States
and promote its political influence
around the world through the policy
of détente.
, Brezhnev
Foreign Events:
• In domestic affairs, as General
Secretary of the Communist Party,
Brezhnev ruled as first among his
equals on the Politburo, not as an
autocrat, and professed to want
economic development of his
country of 265 million people spread
over a sixth of the globe's land area.
• Both his policy and his health
faltered in these tasks in the last
years of his life. Detente, which had
seemed a necessity to many Western
leaders after Soviet tanks moved into
Czechoslovakia in 1968 to crush the
liberalisation of the ''Prague Spring,''
lost much of its appeal in the United
States after the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan in 1979, and President
Carter imposed an embargo on grain
sales and other trade curbs.
and
Détente,
1964-1979
, Key concepts
• Realpolitik: real, realistic, it’s politics or
diplomacy based primarily on power
and on practical and material factors
and considerations, rather than
explicit ideological notions or moral or
ethnical premises.
• (Neue) Ostpolitik: refers to the
normalisation of relations between the
FRG, or West Germany and Eastern
Europe, particularly the GDR or East
Germany, beginning in 1969.
, Brezhnev
• 19 December 1906 – 10 November
1982
Role as leader:
• He was a Soviet politician who led
the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982
when he died. He joined (1931) the
Communist party and rose steadily in
its hierarchy. He was the General
Secretary of the Central Committee
(CC) of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union (CPSU).As the leader of
the Soviet Union, Leonid Ilyich
Brezhnev was a canny and careful
Communist Party functionary who
sought to make his country the
military equal of the United States
and promote its political influence
around the world through the policy
of détente.
, Brezhnev
Foreign Events:
• In domestic affairs, as General
Secretary of the Communist Party,
Brezhnev ruled as first among his
equals on the Politburo, not as an
autocrat, and professed to want
economic development of his
country of 265 million people spread
over a sixth of the globe's land area.
• Both his policy and his health
faltered in these tasks in the last
years of his life. Detente, which had
seemed a necessity to many Western
leaders after Soviet tanks moved into
Czechoslovakia in 1968 to crush the
liberalisation of the ''Prague Spring,''
lost much of its appeal in the United
States after the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan in 1979, and President
Carter imposed an embargo on grain
sales and other trade curbs.
