Trivia Question: What man succeeded Nikita Khrushchev as the First Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union?
Answer: Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev led the Soviet Union for 18 years. His reign ran from 1964-1982. Many blame Brezhnev for planting the seeds that caused the economic stagnation which would destabilize and ruin the Soviet Union.