Brezhnev Doctrine
Socialist intervention justification
The Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet foreign policy principle asserting the USSR's right to intervene in any socialist country where communist rule was threatened.
Named after Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, it justified the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia and shaped Soviet policy toward Eastern Bloc nations until the late 1980s.
The doctrine held that threats to socialism in one country were threats to all socialist states collectively.
- Eastern EuropeContinental region, former Soviet sphere
- Soviet UnionFormer communist superstate
- USSRFormer communist superpower
- MarxismClass-based revolutionary philosophy
- normalizationAdjusting to a standard
satellite states · fraternal · Hungarian Revolution · Leninism · Warsaw Pact · interventionism · Red Army · policy · party line · Cold War · state socialism · Bolshevism · class struggle · Soviet influence · tanks · imperialism · hegemony · 1968
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
- foreign policydiplomacy, diplomatic negotiations, sanctions, containment, deterrence
- Cold War Diplomacydétente, detente, arms control, summits, SALT talks
- Cold War USSRKhrushchev, Politburo, KGB, Kremlin, Central Committee
- Eastern BlocEastern Bloc, communist regime, Warsaw Pact, Iron Curtain, Soviet Union
- sovereigntynational sovereignty, statehood, nation, nation-state, state
Brezhnev Doctrinenon-intervention
Policy of staying uninvolved
Monroe Doctrine · sovereignty · non-interference · Prague Spring · decolonization
Brezhnev Doctrineliberal democracy
Rights-based elected governance
capitalism · free market · democracy · market economy · liberalization
Brezhnev Doctrineglasnost
Soviet transparency reform
perestroika · liberalization · Prague Spring · Velvet Revolution · de-Stalinization
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