Paul Goble
Vienna, January 5 – In a new book entitled ‘Why Brezhnev Didn’t Become Putin,” Aleksandr Khinshtein not only argues that the former Soviet leader should be known not for "stagnation” but for "stability” and that there are "a multitude of parallels” between him and current Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
On Monday, "Komsomolskaya Pravda” published extensive excerpts from Khinshtein’s book, in which he talks about many Soviet and Russian leaders over the last half century, but perhaps the most intriguing segments of those presented concern the similarities the United Russia deputy sees between the two men (www.nsk.kp.ru/daily/25618.03/783765/).
As the newspaper’s Larisa Kaftan puts it, "the further from the Brezhnev era” people go, an era that was "named already during perestroika times as ‘stagnation, the more often [Russians] recall it with sympathy.” But Khinshtein, despite his promise not to write a hagiography, goes further than most.
Brezhnev, Khinshtein says, was "not always the ...
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