Ryzhkov Doctrine (New Union)

The Gorbachev Doctrine (sometimes referred to in the United States as the Comrade Doctrine) was strategy of the during the  and early  Administrations to counteract the fall of Soviet global relations and influences under the US-led. The doctrine was a continuation of the, in which the USSR would not influence the internal affairs of its neighbors, but would peacefully support and aid in pro-democratic movement in former Soviet allies. The doctrine was also to help reopen relations with former allies and to reestablish the "Soviet sphere of influence" that had dissipated during glasnost and perestroika.