abstract
| - The Gorbachev Doctrine was a strategy orchestrated and implemented by the Soviet Union under the Gorbachev government to oppose the global influence of the British Imperial Federation, reform the stagnating Party and the state economy during the final years of the Cold War. While the doctrine lasted less than a decade, it was the centerpiece of Soviet Union foreign policy from the mid 1980s until the end of the Cold War in 1991. Under the Gorbachev Doctrine, the U.S.S.R provided overt and covert aid to anti-colonial guerrillas and resistance movements in an effort to "roll back" British-backed colonial governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The doctrine was designed to diminish British influence in these regions as part of the government's overall Cold War strategy.As de facto ruler of the USSR, he tried to reform the stagnating Party and the state economy by introducing glasnost ("openness"), perestroika ("restructuring"), demokratizatsiya ("democratization"), and uskoreniye ("acceleration" of economic development), which were launched at the 27th Congress of the CPSU in February 1986.
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