He succeeded Brezhnev in 1982
He was ... From 1986 to around 1988 he dismantled central 
planning, allowed state enterprises to set their own outputs, enabled private 
investment in... [DOC] [TLE] Leonid Brezhnev - Wikipedia [PAR] Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was the General Secretary of the Central Committee (CC) 
of the .... Brezhnev's patron Khrushchev succeeded Stalin as General Secretary, 
while Khrushchev's opponent Malenkov ..... Brezhnev responded in his March 
1982 speech in Tashkent where he called for the normalisation of relations.