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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.
Brezhnev rose to power in the Communist Party over the next several years. In 1957 he became a full member of the Politburo. Nikita Khrushchev was leader of the Soviet Union at the time.