From Stability to Stagnation
HThe watchword of
Brezhnev’s 18
years in office was stability.
HChanges in government operations were combined with severe and mounting intolerance toward preference of more fundamental changes.
HThe Prague Spring of 1968,
in which liberal Communists
in Czechoslovakia tried to change communism, was put down by a Soviet-led invasion force, with Brezhnev’s authorization.
