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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.
Turgenev was a contemporary with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. While these wrote about church and religion, Tur IvÃ¡n SerguÃ©yevich TurguÃ©nev (Cyrillic: Ð¸Ð²Ð°Ð½ ÑÑÑÐ³ÐµÐ½ÐµÐ²) was a novelist, poet and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature.