<prompt> Bhala okuqhubekayo kwalesi sigaba - Ngo-October 1964, uKhrushchev wathathelwa isikhundla nguLeonid Brezhnev, owaqhubeka esesikhundleni kwaze kwaba sekufeni kwakhe ngo-November 1982. Phakathi nokubusa kwakhe, izimpikiswano zikaStalin zancishiswa. U-Andres Laiapea uxhuma lokhu nokuxoshwa kwabaningi abaphikisayo, ikakhulukazi u-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, kanti uLaiapea ubhala ukuthi ukulungiswa kukaStalin kwahambisana nokusungulwa kwehlelo lobuntu elizungeze uBrezhnev. Isazi sezokuhlalisana kwabantu kwezombusazwe uViktor Zaslavsky uchaza inkathi kaBrezhnev njengenye yokuyekethisa okusha kukaStalin njengoba izinto ezibalulekile zesimo sezepolitiki ezihambisana noStalin zazigcinwa ngaphandle kokukhulekelwa kobuntu. Ngokusho kuka-Alexander Dubček, ukufika kombuso kaBrejnevs kumemezele ukufika kwe-neo-Stalinism, futhi izinyathelo ezithathwe ngokumelene neCzechoslovakia ngo-1968  <response>: kwakuwukuqiniswa kokugcina kwamandla obuStalin obusha eSoviet Union, ePoland, eHungary, nakwamanye amazwe. UBrezhnev wachaza uhlelo lwezombangazwe lwaseChina ngokuthi luyisimiso sikaStalin esisha. Usosayensi wezombangazwe waseMelika uSeweryn Bialer uchaze inqubomgomo yaseSoviet ngokuthi iphendukela ku-neo-Stalinism ngemva kokufa kukaBrezhnev. 