Moscow, Prague and Warsaw
Overcoming the Brezhnev Doctrine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12695403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W Loth (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 103-118 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cold War History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-2745 • E-ISSN: 1743-7962 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/713999924 |
| OpenAlex | W1988942743 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In August 1968, the Warsaw Pact decided to intervene in Prague. The Pact then functioned as a reciprocal reinsurance club to preserve the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe. However, in 1980/81, when the Polish communist leadership confronted 'Solidarnosc', this insurance club no longer existed. This was because détente had increased the difference in national interests of the Warsaw Pact countries. The Soviet Union was no longer willing to intervene as it had been in 1968, but it was Jaruzelki who feared a possible collapse of 'Socialism' and who decided to impose martial law in Poland. The article examines how the Brezhnev Doctrine had become by 1980 an obsolete mechanism for the Soviet Union to exert its power and influence in Eastern Europe
Communism · Doctrine · Economic history · Empire · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Socialism · Soviet union · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies
| Citations per year | 0.23 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |