According to historian David Dyker in his book The Soviet Union under Gorbachev: Prospects for Reform "Brezhnev left his successors a Soviet Union suffering from a host of domestic and foreign problems".
历史学家大卫·达伊克（David Dyker）在他的著作《戈巴契夫治下的苏联：改革前景》（The Soviet Union under Gorbachev: Prospects for Reform）表示，勃列日涅夫留给他的继任者一个遭受国内外问题痛苦的苏联”。