Dissidents suppressed during this man's tenure included Joseph Brodsky.
Dissidents suppressed during this man's tenure included Joseph Brodsky. In his successful bid for power, this man's co-conspirator was Nikolai Podgornyi. In one speech, this man declared an "alliance of the working class with science" to oppose the reform program of Aleksei Kosygin. Earlier, Kosygin and this man had shared power in a "collective leadership." While in office, this man negotiated the second (*) SALT treaty with Jimmy Carter and dispatched troops to resist the mujahideen in Afghanistan. He had earlier dispatched Soviet forces to put down the Prague Spring as implementation of his namesake "Doctrine" declaring the right of intervention when socialism was threatened. Yuri Andropov succeeded this man after his 1982 death. For 10 points, name this General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union who succeeded Nikita Khrushchev.
Dissidents suppressed during this man's tenure included Joseph Brodsky.
Leonid Ilich Brezhnev