Brezhnev Doctrine
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The threat of Soviet military intervention in Eastern European Soviet satellite states, which Gorbachev abandoned.
A policy asserting the USSR's right to intervene in any socialist country where communist rule was threatened.
A doctrine whose implicit threat was part of the Soviet Union's response to the ideological breach in Poland.
Topics that use Brezhnev Doctrine
- 2R The Cold War, c1945–1991 – Confrontation and cooperation, c1963–1972 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- 2R The Cold War, c1945–1991 – The ending of the Cold War, 1985–1991 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- 2T The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953–2000 (A-level only) – 'Real existing Socialism', 1968–1980 (AQA A-Level)
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