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Updated February 25, 2017. The Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet foreign policy outlined in 1968 which called for the use of Warsaw Pact (but Russian-dominated) troops to intervene in any Eastern Bloc nation which was seen to compromise communist rule and Soviet domination.
Moreover, Soviet theorists are no longer using the formula âdeveloped socialism,â the standard label for the USSR under Brezhnev. âReally existing socialismâ is taking a harsher, more realistic look at its real existence. Gorbachevâs ârevolutionaryâ reforms have the backing of economists of both East and West. Interestingly, spokesmen on both sides, as we will see, agree that Khrushchevâs grandchildren can no longer afford to live under âMarxism.â This is surely a question that Marxists have to investigate more closely.