Bishii Oktoobar 1964, Khrushchev waxaa badalay Leonid Brezhnev, kaasoo xafiiska sii joogay ilaa uu ka geeriyooday bishii Nofeembar 1982. Xilligii uu xukunka hayey, khilaafaadka Stalin waa la yareeyay. Andres Laiapea wuxuu tan ku xidhiidhiyaa "qaxootiga mucaaradka badan, gaar ahaan Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", in kasta oo Laiapea uu qoro in "dib u soo celinta Stalin ay gacan ka geysatay aasaaska cibaadada shakhsiyadda ee ku xeeran Brezhnev". Bulsho-yaqaanka siyaasadda Viktor Zaslavsky wuxuu ku tilmaamaa xilligii Brezhnev mid ka mid ah "is-af-garadka neo-Stalinist" maadaama waxyaabaha muhiimka ah ee jawiga siyaasadeed ee la xiriira Stalin la haystay iyada oo aan la helin cibaadada shakhsiyadeed. Sida laga soo xigtay Alexander Dubček, "soo bixitaanka nidaamka Brezhnev wuxuu ku dhawaaqay soo bixitaanka neo-Stalinism, iyo tallaabooyinka ka dhanka ah Czechoslovakia ee 1968
waxay ahaayeen xoojinta ugu dambeysa ee xoogagga cusub ee Stalinist-ka ee Midowga Soofiyeeti, Poland, Hungary, iyo dalal kale". Brezhnev wuxuu ku tilmaamay siyaasada Shiinaha inay tahay "neo-Stalinist". Seweryn Bialer oo ah aqoonyahanka siyaasada Mareykanka ayaa ku tilmaamay siyaasada Soviet-ka inay u jeesatay neo-Stalinism kadib geerida Brezhnev.