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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.
Mikhail Gorbachev-Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931).Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev.ussian MPs demands to try Mikhail Gorbachev for complicity in USSR ... by AKIpress News Agency. 1991: Hardliners stage coup against President Gorbachev Soviet President. has been overthrown after a coup by Communist hardliners.