In this film Dr Edwin Bacon takes us through Brezhnev’s early life and career: his birth in Ukraine in 1906, the opportunities brought by the revolution, his role in the battle of Ukraine and his eventual arrival to the Politburo at the end of the 1950s. Dr Bacon looks at Brezhnev’s personality and skills and contrasts this calm, stable, clear-thinking operator with his predecessor Nikita Khruschev.