The Soviet Economy: Brezhnev's Years of Stagnation

Thanks to Sherman Commander for sponsoring this video! Check out Sherman Commander on steam: https://tinyurl.com/mz4hyeze Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with the second part of our video series looking at the development of the Soviet economy. This episode looks at the state of the Soviet economy under Leonid Brezhnev, the expansion and increased reliance of oil and gas revenue and how that allowed rot to entrench itself in the system. The Soviet Economy: Revolution to Khrushchev:    • The Soviet Economy from Revolution to Khru...   How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People:    • How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People   How Khrushchev Housed Everyone:    • How Khrushchev Housed Everyone - Cold War ...   Soviet Tourism:    • Soviet Tourism: How did People Get In and ...   Soviet Passport System: New Serfdom or Reform?:    • Soviet Passport System: New Serfdom or Ref...   Soviet Education System:    • Soviet Education System - Cold War DOCUMEN...   Communist Girl Scouts of America:    • How the Girl Scouts of America were Accuse...   ASALA, Armenia Secret Army:    • The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberatio...   Amchitka Island Nuclear Test:    • The Amchitka Nuclear Tests - How Modern En...   Soviet Criminal Underworld:    • Thieves in Law: The World of Soviet Crime   Project Iceworm: Nukes Under the Ice:    • How The United States Army Planned to hide...   Haiti and the Dominican Republic:    • Cold War Haiti vs The Dominican Republic: ...   Red Army Faction:    • How Terrorism came to West Germany: The Re...   Colonial Indochina to 1945:    • How the First Indochina War Began: The Col...   First Indochina War pt. 1 GUERILLA:    • First Indochina War Begins - Cold War DOCU...   First Indochina War pt. 2 INTERNATIONALIZATION:    • How 1949 and the Cold War Internationalize...   Alcohol Prohibition in the USSR    • That Time When They Banned Vodka in the US...   Cocaine and Cartels:    • Cocaine and Cartels: Colombia's Drug-fuele...   International Terrorism:    • How International Terrorism developed and ...   Liberation Theology:    • Liberation Theology   The Cold War   Iranian Nuclear Program:    • Iran Nuclear Program   The Cold War   The School of the Americas:    • How The United States Trained Latin Americ...   America's Secret Nuclear Disaster:    • America's Secret Nuclear Disaster: The San...   How Nuclear Deterrence Theory developed:    • How Nuclear Deterrence Theory developed - ...   Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship:    • Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship -...   What Happened to the German and Japanese POWs?:    • What Happened to the German and Japanese P...   Support us on Patreon:   / thecoldwar  , Youtube membership    / @thecoldwartv   ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ►   / thecoldwar   ✔ Facebook ►   / thecoldwartv   ✔ Instagram ►  / thecoldwartv   ColdWar #ColdWarHistory #History #ModernHistory #USSR #Soviet #SovietUnion #economics #brezhnev #oil #Oileconomy #stagnation *SOURCES* Gregory, Paul R. 2001. Behind the Façade of Stalin’s Command Economy : Evidence from the Soviet State and Party Archives. 1st ed. Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University. Gatrell, Peter. 1986. The Tsarist Economy 1850-1917. Batsford. Spulber, Nicolas. 2003. Russia’s Economic Transitions : From Late Tsarism to the New Millennium. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press. Lieven, Dominic, ed. 2006. The Cambridge History of Russia. Volume 2, Imperial Russia, 1689-1917. Cambridge University Press. Zubok, Vladislav, "Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union", Yale University Press, 2022 Davies, R. W, and University of Birmingham. Centre for Russian and East European Studies. 1990. From Tsarism to the New Economic Policy : Continuity and Change in the USSR Economy. Macmillan in association with the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. Hanson, Philip. 2003. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy : An Economic History of the USSR from 1945. Longman. https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/soviet... https://insider.iea.org.uk/p/a-brief-... Malle, Silvana. 1985. The Economic Organization of War Communism 1918-1921. Cambridge University Press.