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When Khrushchev was asked if he considered Leonid Brezhnev to be his successor, he would mockingly and mockingly answer: "Anyone, except that idiot...". Born in Ukraine in 1906, Leonid Brezhnev succeeded the fiery Nikita Khrushchev in 1964. However, strangely, Brezhnev does not appear as a great figure in the pantheon of geniuses of Soviet communism: ambitious, deceitful, cowardly... Some considered him to be "a doormat", a "smooth talker" and "a personality without personality." Storiavoce offers you another look at this character who remained in power for no less than eighteen years. Was Brezhnev a senile old man? A policeman who crushed the Prague Spring and occupied Afghanistan? Was he a cynic who allowed corruption and shortages to flourish and plunged his country into "stagnation"? Or was he a military hero who brought the Russians back together or even a shrewd diplomat who simply kept the spectre of World War III at bay? Our guest: Andreï Kozovoï is a lecturer at the University of Lille. A historian and translator, he recently contributed to the collective work Une journée avec (under the direction of Franz-Olivier Giesbert and Claude Quétel) published by Perrin. With the same publisher, he has just published Brejnev, l'antihéros (400 pages, €24).