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Noonan, Thomas Schaub was born on January 20, 1938 in New York City. Son of Thomas M. and Martha M. (Schaub) Noonan.
( Leonid Brezhnev was leader of the Soviet Union from 196...)
Leonid Brezhnev was leader of the Soviet Union from 1964-1982, a longer period than any other Soviet leader apart from Stalin. During Brezhnev’s time Soviet power seemed at its height and increasing. Living standards were rising, the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and successful in its space missions, and the Soviet Union's influence reached into all part of the world. Yet, as this book, which provides a comprehensive overview and reassessment of Brezhnev’s life, early political career and career as leader, shows, the seeds of decline were sown in Brezhnev's time. There was a huge over-commitment of resources to the Soviet industrial-military complex and to massively expensive foreign policy overstretch. At the same time there was a failure to deliver on citizens' rising expectations, and an overconfident ignoring of dissidents and their demands. The book will be of great interest to Russian specialists, and also to scholars of international relations and world history.
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Russian studies educator history educator
Noonan, Thomas Schaub was born on January 20, 1938 in New York City. Son of Thomas M. and Martha M. (Schaub) Noonan.
AB, Dartmouth College, 1959. Master of Arts, Indiana University, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana University, 1965.
Assistant professor, Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio., 1965-1966; assistant professor department history, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, 1966-1974; associate professor, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, 1974-1979; professor, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, since 1979; department chairman Russian and East European studies, 1981-1991; associate department chairman history, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, 1992-1993, 94-; acting department chairman history, 1994-1995.
( Leonid Brezhnev was leader of the Soviet Union from 196...)
Fellow American Numismatic Society, Royal Numismatic Society. Member American History Association, American Association Advancement Slavic Studies, Association Advancement Baltic Studies.
Married Norma L. Corigliano, May 19, 1937. 1 child, Thomas R.