
‘He Loved Handing Out Decorations’
The admiring biographer of Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet Union’s most memorably inconspicuous leader, finds him an affable heartthrob who longed for peace “with every fibre of his body.”
Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman
by Susanne Schattenberg, translated from the German by John Heath
June 9, 2022 issue