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# Andrey Kozovoy's new book on Brezhnev draws on little known sources
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/na-polke-s-istoricheskimi-knigami-vo-fnake-goroda-nant-riadom-s-nastoiashchim-romanom-gorbacheva-kniga-o-brezhneve-novaia-rabota-frantsuzskogo-istorika-sovetskogo-proiskhozhdeniia-andre/
- Published: 2021-03-02T16:22:32.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:09:38.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Books, Observations, Society

On the history shelf at the Fnac in Nantes, next to "The Real Novel of Gorbachev", stands a book about Brezhnev, the new work of Andrei Kozovoi, a French historian of Soviet origin who specialises in the Cold War and its manifestations in culture. This history of Brezhnev draws on unpublished or little-known sources and, although it contains a decent helping of black  
humour on almost every page, it shows the General Secretary as rather more than a weary marionette, noting, for example, how he outlasted Stalin and Khrushchev thanks to his personal qualities. Interestingly, Kozovoi's Brezhnev is not a discredited figure but an intriguing, if contradictory, political actor.