Talk:Brezhnev Doctrine

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Scpaulsen.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 16:15, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Untitled

Removed reference to Hungary in 1956. Brezhnev assumed power in '64 which makes me doubt that the doctrine was invoked in '56.

Yes very true, I confirmed this with my father who was their for the revoultion

English translation

The English translation on Wikisource doesnt indicate who was the translator. If you know of any details that may help us determine who provided the translation, please comment on the talk page: s:Talk:Brezhnev Doctrine. John Vandenberg (talk) 07:26, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Opinions

"The Soviets also begged that it was out of protection of their Southern border. It was also explained by the Soviets that they owed help to their friend and ally Babrak Karmal. While the real reason seems to be for the sake of their own expansion, the world will never really know their exact intentions." and other parts of the article contain too many opinions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.231.155.98 (talk) 14:52, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

"Mikhail Gorbachev repudiated the doctrine in the late 1980s"

A few lines later, the article says it was abandoned in response to the Polish crisis in 1980-81. Change "late" to "early"?

Chaptagai (talk) 11:36, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

It's probably not that simple. In practice, the doctrine lost its validity during the Poland crisis in 1980/81. But it has been formally denounced only much later. During Chernenko's funeral in March 1985, Gorbachev told the East European leaders he intends to respect “their sovereignty and independence”. In October 1989 it has been formally denounced and replaced by the Sinatra doctrine.

Zubok, Vladislav M. (2009). A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. Chapel Hill (NC): The University of North Carolina Press. pp. 266–267, 270. ISBN 978-0-8078-5958-2.

KGB chairman Yuri Andropov was a pivotal figure in the Politburo’s decisionmaking circle. He had been the ardent advocate of Soviet invasions of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Afghanistan. In the fall of 1980, however, Andropov said to a trusted subordinate: “The quota of interventions abroad has been exhausted.” Andropov had already begun to position himself as Brezhnev’s heir apparent and realized that another military intervention would be a disastrous career move. The invasion of Poland would have killed European détente, still on the ropes after the Afghan intervention. It might even have meant the collapse of the entire Helsinki process, the biggest achievement of Soviet statesmanship of the 1970s.
[...]
The KGB chairman came close not only to rejecting the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine but also to revising the expansive version of the revolutionary-imperial paradigm that the Kremlin had been practicing.

Ouimet, Matthew J. (2003). The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy. Chapel Hill (NC): The University of North Carolina Press. p. 243. ISBN 0-8078-5411-5.

The conclusion of the Polish Solidarity crisis in late 1981 left the Brezhnev Doctrine of Limited Sovereignty very like the man after whom it had been named: Both had become mannequins propped up by a fading imperial power desperate to preserve its role in world affairs.
[...]
In the wake of the Polish crisis of 1980-81, a policy of greater forbearance in the bloc commanded support at every level of the Soviet Party bureaucracy. Though still unaware of their accomplishment, the Polish people had forced the Soviet colossus into an imperial retreat from which it would never recover.

Taubman, William (2017). Gorbachev: His Life and Times. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 269. ISBN 978-0-393-64701-3.

After the funeral, East European leaders trooped to the Kremlin for a group session with the new Soviet leader. Gorbachev opened the session by endorsing “equality among allies and respect for their sovereignty and independence,” in other words, he later recalled, “a repudiation of the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine” that had justified Soviet interventions in East Germany, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.

Lüthi, Lorenz M. (2020). Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle East, Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 584. ISBN 978-1-108-40706-9.

On October 25, 1989, during Gorbachev’s visit to Finland, his speaker announced that “the Brezhnev Doctrine is dead.” Instead, the Soviet Union had adopted the “Sinatra Doctrine,” pointing out that Poland and Hungary had acted according to the American singer’s famous song “I did it my way,” without any Soviet interference.

--Jo1971 (talk) 16:59, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Western bias

This article reads like a discussion paper for the National Endowment for Democracy. Anybody relying on Wikipedia as a source for studying contemporary world history since 1945 should be warned about the consistent right wing free market bias across its articles and steered towards texts and historians with a more balanced approach outside of the USA. 2A02:C7C:E048:500:1C0F:ED05:AE18:6755 (talk) 12:32, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Post-Brezhnev Doctrine

The section titled "Post-Brezhnev Doctrine" is not well written, and I propose it for deletion. To focus, first take note that there is no such thing and cannot be, "Post-Brezhnev Doctrine". Kotika98 (talk) 21:34, 7 March 2023 (UTC)