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    The Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet foreign policy that proclaimed that any threat to "socialist rule" in any state of the Soviet Bloc in Central and Eastern...
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    Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet...
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    Party one month after the invasion of Czechoslovakia, Brezhnev outlined the Brezhnev Doctrine, in which he claimed the right to violate the sovereignty...
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  • is being considered for merging. › On 10 November 1982, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, the third General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...
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    Kenneth "Peking and the Brezhnev Doctrine". Asian Affairs. 3 (1975) p. 22. Rea, Kenneth "Peking and the Brezhnev Doctrine". Asian Affairs. 3 (1975)p...
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    Bulgaria) invaded Czechoslovakia. The invasion comported with the Brezhnev Doctrine, a policy of compelling Eastern Bloc states to subordinate national...
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  • Castañeda Doctrine Giedroyc Doctrine Brezhnev Doctrine Gerasimov Doctrine Karaganov Doctrine Falin-Kvitsinsky Doctrine Primakov Doctrine Sinatra Doctrine 1823:...
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    Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, referred to as the Brezhnev Era, covers the period of Leonid Brezhnev's rule of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)...
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    directly. So that's what I called the Reagan Doctrine, it was sort of the opposite of the Brezhnev Doctrine, which was whatever we control we keep. And...
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  • part of Gorbachev's doctrine of new political thinking. The Sinatra Doctrine was a significant break from the earlier Brezhnev Doctrine, under which Moscow...
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    Banana Wars Brezhnev Doctrine Foreign policy of the United States Gunboat diplomacy Latin America–United States relations Monroe Doctrine Centennial half...
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    decisions without discussing or confirming them with the Politburo. Leonid Brezhnev, a close companion of Khrushchev, was elected the first secretary the same...
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    suppress the Prague Spring. This effectively marked the end of the Brezhnev Doctrine. The pacification of Poland was thus left to Jaruzelski, Kiszczak...
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    Eastern Bloc (through military force if needed) became known as the Brezhnev Doctrine. On the night of 20–21 August, Eastern Bloc armies from four Warsaw...
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    providing foreign aid to support American interests. Doctrine Monroe Doctrine Brezhnev Doctrine Interventionism (politics) Red Scare Peters,Gerhard; Woolley...
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    of Europe, Mr. Gorbachev made no direct reference to the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, under which Moscow had asserted the right to use force to prevent...
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    social policies of the Soviet Union that began during the rule of Leonid Brezhnev (1964–1982) and continued under Yuri Andropov (1982–1984) and Konstantin...
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    of Czechoslovakia on 20–21 August 1968 and the proclamation of the Brezhnev Doctrine that the Soviets had the right to overthrow any communist government...
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    Young, Alphaville sang of living in a world with nuclear weapons. Brezhnev Doctrine Culture during the Cold War History of the Soviet Union (1964–1982)...
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    over the other socialist countries. This and the interventionist Brezhnev Doctrine, permitting the invasion of other socialist countries, led to characterisation...
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  • Genaro Estrada Brezhnev Doctrine named after Leonid Brezhnev Sinatra Doctrine named by Gennadi Gerasimov after Frank Sinatra Zhdanov Doctrine named after...
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  • An assassination attempt was made upon Leonid Brezhnev on 22 January 1969, when a deserter from the Soviet Army, Viktor Ilyin, fired shots at a motorcade...
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    Hungary – invaded Czechoslovakia. The invasion comported with the Brezhnev Doctrine, a policy of compelling Eastern Bloc states to subordinate national...
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    from Afghanistan indicated that the Brezhnev Doctrine was dead. "If the Soviets left Afghanistan, the Brezhnev Doctrine would be breached, and the principle...
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    1970s as a severe blow to the Soviet international standing. The Brezhnev Doctrine was effectively dead. After unsuccessfully begging Warsaw Pact commander-in-chief...
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    suppress the Prague Spring reforms. Brezhnev justified this and future interventions with the Brezhnev Doctrine, which stated that any threat to Soviet...
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    Spring in 1968. Gorbachev abandoned the oppressive and expensive Brezhnev Doctrine, which mandated intervention in the Warsaw Pact states, in favor of...
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    the Soviet Union, the GDR's sovereignty was limited. As part of the Brezhnev Doctrine, the Soviet Union reserved the right to intervene in its sphere of...
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    democracy activists Ouimet, Matthew J. (2003). The rise and fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet foreign policy. UNC Press Books. p. 126. ISBN 978-0807854112...
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    events of November 1989 and their aftermath. He confirmed that the Brezhnev Doctrine had left an East German head of state with surprisingly little autonomy...
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