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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.
According to historians, Bolshevism was the belief that capitalismdoes not achieve ultimate growth. Lenin and other leaders believedeconomic growth can only be achieved by forced revolutionarytactics and there should be only one leader and one political partyin control of RussiaÃ¢??s affairs.