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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.
Perestroika, which comes from the Russian word that means restructuring, is basically defined as the restructuring of the political, social and economical system. In Gorbachev's case, perestroika was a type of restructuring that helped develop democracy throughout the USSR.lasnost-Russian for 'Openness' a reform introduced in USSR in the 1980s by President Gorbachev, whereby the workings of all government departments had to be conducted with complete transparency, enabling the ordinary citizen to question or complain about the process of decision making by government departments.