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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.
Glasnost and perestroika. Mikhael Gorbachev, the 1980s Soviet ruler who oversaw glasnost and perestroika. Glasnost and perestroika were programs of reform that followed a dismal decade for people in the USSR.orbachevâs leadership began with immediate discussion, both public and private, about the need for major economic reform. Realising that meaningful economic reform was not possible without political change, Gorbachev announced a policy of perestroika, or ârestructuringâ (1986).