Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev [antikvár]

Leonid Brezhnev: Foreword to this Edition Mr. Robert Maxwell, Chairman of the British publishing house Pergamon Press, has asked me if 1 would write a Foreword to this book. That the publishers should have decided to acquaint their readers with the short biography issued in Moscow in connection with my seventieth birthday in 1976 is not just gratifying to me as an individual: there is more to the fact. It reveals an interest in the life of the Soviet people, in the historic road taken by the Soviet state, in its current problems, and in the policy of the Communist Party. The life of each one of us, particularly if we are determined to play a part in social and political work to the best of our abilities, reflects above all the social ideals which that life serves. Having from first youth linked my fate with the struggle for the people's happiness, with the aims of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, I defined for myself in so doing my entire life's aim and purpose. Millions in our country can say as much and joyously proclaim themselves, with our poet Mayakovsky, 'a fragment of that strength'. I believe that this book, brought to the reader's attention by Pergamon Press, can reveal much of what has constituted over the past decades, and still does today, the very substance of my generation's life. Together with the whole country, we as young workers went through the testing XI