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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 literally means 'restructuring.' Another of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, perestroika refers to the restructuring of Soviet political and economic systems. Under perestroika, Gorbachev implemented political reform and introduced elements of free market economics.