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The Brezhnev's trilogy (russian: link=no, Трилогия Брежнева) (1978–79) was a series of three memoirs published under name of
Leonid Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev; uk, links= no, Леонід Ілліч Брежнєв, . (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet Union, Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Gener ...
: * ''The Minor Land'' (russian: link=no, Малая земля, lit=
Malaya Zemlya Malaya Zemlya (russian: Малая Земля, lit. "Small Land") was a Soviet uphill outpost on Cape Myskhako (russian: Мысхако) that was recaptured after battles with the Germans during the Battle of the Caucasus, on the night of 4 Febru ...
, translit=Malaya zemlya) * ''Rebirth'' (russian: link=no, Возрождение, lit=Vozrozhdenie) * ''Virgin Lands'' (russian: link=no, Целина, lit=
tselina Tselina or virgin lands (; ) is an umbrella term for underdeveloped, scarcely populated, high-fertility lands often covered with the chernozem soil. The lands were mostly located in the steppes of the Volga region, Northern Kazakhstan and Southern ...
, translit=Tselina) As a part of the publicity campaign, Brezhnev was immediately given the Lenin Prize, the highest Soviet literary award, after publication of the trilogy.Overview of chapter 11 of the Cambridge History of Russian Literature
by
Efim Etkind Efim Etkind (russian: Ефи́м Григо́рьевич Э́ткинд, 26 February 1918, Petrograd – 22 November 1999, Potsdam) was a Soviet philologist and translation theorist.Phonograph record A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English), or simply a record, is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts nea ...
ing and there were plans to stage it in theatre, where Brezhnev's favourite actor
Vyacheslav Tikhonov Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Tikhonov (russian: Вячесла́в Васи́льевич Ти́хонов; 8 February 1928, in Pavlovsky Posad – 4 December 2009, in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian actor whose best known role was as Soviet spy, S ...
would have performed the role of Brezhnev. The books became a butt of numerous political jokes in their own right. The public considered it extremely unlikely that Brezhnev, who was visibly senile by then and had severe trouble speaking, was the true author. Indeed, in the 1990s many theories about the true authorship came to light, most probably a group of Moscow journalists led by Leonid Zamyatin wrote those books. In summer 1987, the books were removed from bookshops and turned into
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.14 этапов эпохи Брежнева: чем гордиться и чего стыдиться.
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Malaya Zemlya Malaya Zemlya (russian: Малая Земля, lit. "Small Land") was a Soviet uphill outpost on Cape Myskhako (russian: Мысхако) that was recaptured after battles with the Germans during the Battle of the Caucasus, on the night of 4 Febru ...


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Political memoirs Leonid Brezhnev Books about the Soviet Union 1978 books 1979 books Russian memoirs {{USSR-bio-book-stub