"<strong>End of a Russian era:</strong> When President Leonid Brezhnev, who led the Soviet Union for 18 years, died on November 10, 1982, it <a href=""http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/11/the-death-of-leonid-brezhnev-and-the-long-battle-for-russias-future/264985/"" target=""_blank"">closed a chapter </a>of old-guard Communist Party leadership and made way for a new regime that wanted reform."
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