Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Oktoba na 1964, Khrushchev ya maye gurbin Leonid Brezhnev, wanda ya kasance a ofis har zuwa mutuwarsa a watan Nuwamba 1982. A lokacin mulkinsa, an yi watsi da rikice-rikicen Stalin. Andres Laiapea ya danganta wannan da "kashewar 'yan adawa da yawa, musamman Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", kodayake Laiapea ya rubuta cewa "[t] sake farfado da Stalin ya tafi hannu da hannu tare da kafa bautar mutum a kusa da Brezhnev". Masanin ilimin zamantakewar siyasa Viktor Zaslavsky ya bayyana lokacin Brezhnev a matsayin daya daga cikin "haƙuri na Neo-Stalinist" kamar yadda aka kiyaye mahimman abubuwan da ke cikin yanayin siyasa da ke hade da Stalin ba tare da bautar mutum ba. A cewar Alexander Dubček, "zuwan mulkin Brezhnev ya sanar da zuwan Neo-Stalinism, da kuma matakan da aka dauka kan Czechoslovakia a 1968
sun kasance ƙarfafawa na ƙarshe na sojojin neo-Stalinist a cikin Tarayyar Soviet, Poland, Hungary, da sauran ƙasashe. " Brezhnev ya bayyana layin siyasa na kasar Sin a matsayin "neo-Stalinist". Masanin kimiyyar siyasa na Amurka Seweryn Bialer ya bayyana manufofin Soviet a matsayin juyawa zuwa neo-Stalinism bayan mutuwar Brezhnev.