Question 1 Leonid Brezhnev options: a. valued stability above all, blocking significant attempts to deal with economic/social problems. b. greatly increased the funding for new agricultural areas in Kazakhstan and Mongolia. c. sharply reduced the powers of the KGB and Interior Ministry. d. was the first to finally break with Stalinism and to conciliate the Czech regime. e. was a sincere admirer of the policies of Nikita Khrushchev.