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18: Before and After the End of History

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The Brezhnev Doctrine Is Not About Marxism. It's About Power.

The idea that I'm your big brother and when something goes wrong, I get to come in and pound you is not an especially Marxist idea. Brezhnev doesn't care about Marxism. He cares about it much less than we have in this lecture. It also raises interesting questions. If you're my little brother, who are the parents? Where's mom and dad? Where are they in all of this? This move into the family? It's actually a very conservative move.

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