leonid brezhnev
- Led Soviet Union from 1964 - 1982
- Many think this is a period of deterioration for USSR due to party "apparatchiks" left over from the Stalin regime wanted to return to the old status quo
-Made famous the Brezhnev Doctrine:
"It was the right and duty of fraternal socialist countries to intervene in each others affairs when socialism was threatened"
-He makes this while intervening in Czechoslovakia in 1968
- Many think this is a period of deterioration for USSR due to party "apparatchiks" left over from the Stalin regime wanted to return to the old status quo
-Made famous the Brezhnev Doctrine:
"It was the right and duty of fraternal socialist countries to intervene in each others affairs when socialism was threatened"
-He makes this while intervening in Czechoslovakia in 1968
czechoslovakia, 1968
- Had a democratic tradition
- In 1968 Alexander Dubcek became Secretary
-Gained freedom of press, assembly worship and right to strike "Socialism with a human face"
-This move threatened to spread to neighbouring Romania
-Troops from several satellite states moved in
-Dubcek arrested and relieved by Husak who followed the Russian line
- In 1968 Alexander Dubcek became Secretary
-Gained freedom of press, assembly worship and right to strike "Socialism with a human face"
-This move threatened to spread to neighbouring Romania
-Troops from several satellite states moved in
-Dubcek arrested and relieved by Husak who followed the Russian line