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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.
Lev Kamenev - A leading Bolshevik, and a member of Lenin's Politburo in the early '20s. He would be executed by Stalin in 1936. Alexander Kerensky - A socialist (but not a Marxist), he became the leader of the Provisional Government in the summer of 1917, and fled to America after the Bolshevik coup. Nadezhda Krupskaya - Lenin's wife, and a tireless Bolshevik activist, she assisted her husband throughout his rise to power.