 Ramba uchiverenga ndima iyi - Central Committee yeCommunist Party yeSoviet Union, maererano nenyanzvi dzeSoviet Merle Fainsod naJerry F. Hough, yakasarudzwa zvakabvumiranwa paCongress yechi22 yeParty1731 October 1961. Komiti yeCentral yechi22 yakazosarudza Politburo nomwoyo wose. Brezhnev, sachigaro wePresidium yeSoviet Supreme, akafungidzirwa seimwe nzira yeKozlov semunyori wechipiri, asi panzvimbo pezvo akaitwa munyori wechitatu, munyori anotarisira indasitiri. Muna 1963, nokuda kwezvikonzero zvisingazivikanwi, zvichida zvikonzero zvehutano, Brezhnev akatora mabasa aKozlov paSecretariat, uye akava de facto Second Secretary. Apo mumwe mutori wenhau wokuMadokero akabvunza Khrushchev muna 1963 kuti ndiani aizomutsiva, Khrushchev akapindura zvakananga kuti Brezhnev. Pashure pokurwira simba kwenguva refu, Khrushchev akabviswa pachigaro, uye hutungamiri hwekubatana hwaitungamirirwa naBrezhnev, Kosygin, Podgorny, Mikhail Suslov naAndrei Kirilenko hwakaumbwa. 