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Please join the Harriman Institute for a Russian History Kruzhok with Donald Raleigh.

Part of chapter 7 of his current book project, a biography of L. I. Brezhnev, Donald Raleigh’s paper assesses Brezhnev’s 26-month tenure as first secretary of the Communist Party of Moldavia between 1950 and 1952, focusing on the problems he encountered in this non-Slavic republic, how he dealt with them, and his leadership style.  Drawing on Moldavian archives, Raleigh shows how, despite some temporary setbacks reflecting infighting among Stalin’s would-be successors in Moscow, Brezhnev’s success in running Moldavia, his first such assignment, secured him a coveted, if for now precarious, slot within the USSR’s top leadership.