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What did Brezhnev do that made him a revisionist? (lemmygrad.ml)

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I haven't really studied Soviet history post Nikita so idk anything about Leonid

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

He was just kind of bad at management. He didn't see the importance of computers and didn't have good policies to reverse the stagnation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

I read that alot of Brezhnev's policies were a return of capitalist elements, such as allowing economic enterprises to "fail" if they were unprofitable and making housing more market-like.

In a vacuum, I don't like these policies, but maybe they make more sense in context, I'm not sure. I know some limited reforms in the housing market were helpful.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Didn't USSR have like 5% GDP growth per annum during the Brezhnev stagnation? (not that GDP is really an important economic indicator)