Brezhnev Doctrine

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The Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet Cold War policy asserting the right of the USSR to intervene in other socialist countries to preserve communist rule and prevent deviation from Moscow’s model.

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Generate an image of the Brezhnev Doctrine (The Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet Cold War policy asserting the right of the USSR to intervene in other socialist countries to preserve communist rule and prevent deviation from Moscow’s model.)

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Cold War policy ⓘ
foreign policy doctrine ⓘ
abandonedBy Mikhail Gorbachev ⓘ
abandonmentDate late 1980s ⓘ
alsoKnownAs doctrine of limited sovereignty ⓘ
announcedIn Brezhnev speech to the Fifth Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party ⓘ
announcementDate 1968-11-13 ⓘ
appliesTo Warsaw Pact states ⓘ
linked to: Warsaw Pact

socialist countries ⓘ
consequence international criticism of Soviet imperialism ⓘ
limitation of political reforms in Eastern Europe ⓘ
reinforcement of Soviet control over Eastern Bloc ⓘ
coreIdea defense of socialism against internal and external threats ⓘ
limited sovereignty of socialist states ⓘ
prevention of deviation from the Soviet model of socialism ⓘ
right of the USSR to intervene in socialist countries ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Soviet Union ⓘ
field Soviet foreign policy ⓘ
international relations ⓘ
formulatedBy Leonid Brezhnev ⓘ
geopoliticalBloc Eastern Bloc ⓘ
historicalContext Cold War ⓘ
Soviet–Eastern Bloc relations ⓘ
ideology Marxism–Leninism ⓘ
influenced Soviet interventions in allied socialist states ⓘ
inForceDuring 1970s ⓘ
early 1980s ⓘ
late 1960s ⓘ
languageOfFormulation Russian ⓘ
legalStatus unwritten policy ⓘ
namedAfter Leonid Brezhnev ⓘ
opposedBy United States ⓘ
Western European countries ⓘ
reformist movements in Eastern Europe ⓘ
politicalAlignment communist ⓘ
principle interests of world socialism take precedence over national sovereignty of socialist states ⓘ
no socialist country may change its communist party’s leading role ⓘ
no socialist country may leave the socialist camp ⓘ
region Eastern Europe ⓘ
relatedConcept Prague Spring ⓘ
Sinatra Doctrine ⓘ
Warsaw Pact ⓘ
limited sovereignty ⓘ
replacedBy Sinatra Doctrine ⓘ
timePeriod 1968–1980s ⓘ
usedToJustify Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in 1979 ⓘ
Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 ⓘ
suppression of the Prague Spring ⓘ

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Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Brezhnev stagnation → foreignPolicyDoctrine → Brezhnev Doctrine ⓘ
Leonid Brezhnev → implementedPolicy → Brezhnev Doctrine ⓘ
Soviet Union → foreignPolicyDoctrine → Brezhnev Doctrine ⓘ
Détente → hasPolicyDoctrine → Brezhnev Doctrine (as counterpart context) ⓘ
subject linked to: Detente
linked to: Brezhnev Doctrine
Operation Danube → politicalDoctrine → Brezhnev Doctrine ⓘ
Sinatra Doctrine → replacedPolicy → Brezhnev Doctrine ⓘ
doctrine of limited sovereignty → alsoKnownAs → Brezhnev Doctrine ⓘ