CPSU Analysis of the World Situation during Brezhnev Era

Concerned with achieving military rather than economic parity with the west, Brezhnev used ideology to segregate USSR from the mainstream developments in the world in a multitude of areas. This caused decadence in the internal development of the Soviet in the late seventies and early eighties. Foreign policy, in the Soviet Union, had always been considered as a means to an end set by the party. Changes, developments and new foreign policy doctrines were always vindicated in terms of Marxism-Leninism This Paper analyses the Brezhnev foreign Policy in various aspects.