What was the Nikita Khrushchev Doctrine?

Question by Karlitaa: What was the Khrushchev Doctrine?

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Answer by Spellbound RIP Poly Styrene
There was no Khrushchev Doctrine as such. Although he is most associated with the policy of “peaceful co-existence”.

This doctrine was based on the idea as that the Marxist revolution was “inevitable” in ALL developed industrial countries, the Soviet Union could, therefore, become less confrontational with the West, and could accept that they would remain capitalist until their own revolutions happened.

Coupled with this doctrine was the idea that revolutions in all “fraternal” countries needed to be protected from any “bourgeois, capitalists, counter-revolutionary elements” who might try to destabilise them – hence the intervention in Hungary when communist rule there collapsed in rebellion.
This also applied to the Soviet Union itself, the USSR saw the US/NATO missiles based in Turkey as a direct threat to their survival, so tried to redress the balance by putting missiles in Cuba – with the added benefit of protecting a “fraternal, socialist country”.

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