The Brezhnev Doctrine was the Soviet foreign policy position that the USSR had a duty to defend socialism in the Warsaw Pact. It prioritized class struggle over national sovereignty.[1] It was the inverse of the USA's Truman Doctrine, which defended bourgeois states from being overthrown.
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- ↑ Roger Keeran, Thomas Kenny (2010). Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union: 'Turning Point, 1987-88' (p. 158). [PDF] iUniverse.com. ISBN 9781450241717