Word: brezhnevs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foreigner could recall a previous occasion when a Soviet Communist Party leader had failed to appear for the parade. Only a year earlier, the late Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, visibly ill, had endured three hours of icy temperatures on the reviewing stand. Three days later, he died. Said a prominent Western envoy in Moscow: "Brezhnev stood there on his dying feet, because not being there meant you had lost power and authority...
Such a willingness to use military force in the superpower struggle represents a challenge by Reagan to the "Brezhnev doctrine," the late Soviet President's determination, aimed at Poland and other nations, that Moscow has the right to use military force to prevent pro-Soviet governments from drifting or being pulled out of its sphere. The "Reagan doctrine," as indicated by the rationales for the Grenada invasion, is that the U.S. can and may use force to challenge regimes that threaten American security...
...character of the Soviet regime isn't the issue. Like most of the hardy few who actually read Politburo statements and obscure Russian articles, I believe Mr. Brezhnev meant it when he told the 1976 Party Congress that "detente does not in the slightest abolish the laws of class struggle," or Mr. Gronlyko when in June 1983 he hammered home to the Supreme Soviet the necessity to defend "our borders" of the entire Earanian empire, presumably against such imperialist agressors as Solidarity, the people of Afghanistan, or the unwitting agents of U.S. "special services" such as those aboard KAL, flight...
...revolutionary states, in what Philosopher Michael Walzer calls the "failed totalitarianism" that is descended from the classic, frenzied model of Hitler and Stalin and Mao. Such is the case in the Kremlin, which had already put its frozen heart on display with its stunningly barren funeral for Leonid Brezhnev, and now showed the world that it is no more able to mourn others than to mourn...
...useful analysis. However, during Khruchev's years in power. Soviet scholars gained greater access to Western scholarship, censorship was loosened and researchers were given increased authority to determine the focus of their own studies, always though within a Marxist-Leninist conceptual framework. During the late 1960s and early 1970s Brezhnev tightened the control over academe, but not all scholars found their discretionary authority restricted. In fact, in areas where applied social science research could improve the coherence of domestic or foreign policy, the conditions of scholarship were often approved, so that in the relative vacuum of Brezhnev's final years...