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"Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev" (; ; , 19 December 1906 (Old Style and New Style dates/O.S. 6 December) – 10 November 1982) was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union/General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union/Central Committee (CC) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), presiding over the country from 1964 until his death in 1982. His eighteen-year term as General Secretary was second only to that of Joseph Stalin in duration. During History of the Soviet Union (1964–82)/Brezhnev's rule, the global influence of the Soviet Union grew dramatically, in part because of the expansion of the Soviet military during this time. His tenure as leader was marked by the beginning of an era of economic and social stagnation in the Soviet Union.