The Era of Stagnation is a term used to describe the economic, political, and social era in the history of the Soviet Union that began during the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev and continued under Yuri
Scholars are generally unsure as to what effect the "Kosygin reform", named after its initiator Alexei Kosygin, had on economic growth.
Perestroika was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the late 1980s, widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost polic
Era of Stagnation
…to stop any "radical" reform-minded attempts by Kosygin. The last significant reform undertaken by the Kosygin government, and some believe in the pre-perestroika era, was a joint decision of the Central Committee and the Council of Ministers named "Improving planning and reinforcing the effects of the economic…
5 kopeck perestroika commemorative postage stamp, 1988
"Wall of Sorrow" at the first exhibition of the victims of Stalinism in Moscow, 19 November 1988
A young boy and Ronald Reagan in Red Square, Moscow, 1988