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The Party - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Working class unrest
        
        "Brezhnev wanted workers to be materially comfortable..." pg.409
        
        The party knew they needed to keep the people comfortable
        
        In the 1970s, a bus driver would earn 230 rubles when secondary school teachers earned 150
        
        Working class appeasment to prevent rebellion
    - - They were loosing the population due to the lack of reforms, so the party recruited more people, ending up with 1 in 10 Soviet Adults being party members.
- - - - SALT I and SALT II
      - Anti-Ballistic Missiles Treaty
      - Visits of US presidents --> USSR, and vice versa
        
        Nixon Moscow 1972 &1974
        
        Ford Vladivostok 1976
        
        Breznhev NY 1973
    - - "The Soviet Union' international position ... the USA" (p. 411)
        
        This change in leadership changed replaced cooperation with a "challenging attitude" which signaled a new aggresive phase of the Cold War
      - In December 1979, however, the Politburo... Islamist Adversaries. (p. 411)
- - - - "Gross agricultural output by 1980 was twenty-one percent higher than the average for 1966-1970" P.g. 401
        
        Cereal crops rose by 18% in the same period of time
      - By 1975 consumer goods had expanded 9% slower than capital goods
        
        Upon completion, the eighth Five-Year-Plan was seen as successful, and actually promoted the production of consumer goods
      - By 1980 there were 4,083 associations in the USSR producing slightly over half the industrial output
- - - - Brezhnev's health
        
        Almost dying and terrible health habits
        
        The Party kept him in power because they didn't want a power struggle, and wanted to keep their own positions
        
        Abuse of substances and chronic illness