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 politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1964 and ...

: * ''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, 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, The books were also available as a Phonograph recording 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 ...

would have performed the role of Brezhnev. The books became a butt of numerous

political jokes A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is usually not meant to be interpreted literally. It usually takes the form of a story, often with dialogue, ...

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 waste paper.14 этапов эпохи Брежнева: чем гордиться и чего стыдиться.
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Political memoirs Leonid Brezhnev Books about the Soviet Union 1978 books 1979 books Russian memoirs {{USSR-bio-book-stub

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