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The Brezhnev era ended late in Ukraine: its chief representative , Volodymyr Shcherbytskyi, who had kept Ukraine in a tight grip for four Soviet leaders since his appointment as first secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) in May 1972, managed to survive until September 1989 — four and a half years into the perestroika era.
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Kuzio, T. (2000). Ukraine on the Eve of the Gorbachev Era. In: Ukraine: Perestroika to Independence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333984345_3
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