Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - 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 rashin zaman lafiya a matsayin shari'ar Sinyavsky-Daniel a 1966, wanda ya nuna ƙarshen Khrushchev Thaw, yayin da wasu suka sanya shi a cikin zalunci
na Prague Spring a shekarar 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.