Kammala wannan jumla: Brezhnev ya maye gurbin Khrushchev a matsayin shugaban Soviet a 1964. Zamanin Brezhnev (1964<unk>1982) ya fara ne da ci gaban tattalin arziki mai girma da haɓaka wadata, amma a hankali manyan matsaloli a cikin zamantakewa, siyasa, da tattalin arziki sun tara. Rashin ci gaba na zamantakewar jama'a ya fara ne bayan hauhawar Brezhnev zuwa mulki, lokacin da ya soke wasu gyare-gyaren Khrushchev kuma ya sake gyara manufofin Stalinist. Wasu masu sharhi suna kallon farkon zaman lafiyar zamantakewa a matsayin Sinyavsky-Daniel shari'ar a 1966, wanda ya nuna ƙarshen Khrushchev Thaw, yayin da wasu suka sanya shi a farkon shekara ta 1960.
Dakatar da Prague Spring a shekara ta 1968. Zamanin siyasa na wannan lokacin yana da alaƙa da kafa tsarin mulkin gerontocracy, wanda ya zo a matsayin wani ɓangare na manufofin kwanciyar hankali.