31 January 1968Tet Offensive ResponseLeonid Brezhnev
Responds to the Tet Offensive while sustaining Soviet support for Hanoi
Historical records for Russia in 1968, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Responds to the Tet Offensive while sustaining Soviet support for Hanoi
Joins Warsaw Pact leaders in criticizing the direction of political reforms in Czechoslovakia.
Kerensky develops his views through democratic opposition after 1917.
Handles Soviet diplomacy as US-North Vietnamese talks open in Paris
Conducts direct talks with Alexander Dubcek and the Czechoslovak leadership over the Prague Spring reforms.
Supports a Warsaw Pact warning demanding that Czechoslovak leaders defend the Communist political system.
Warsaw Pact leaders meeting at Bratislava affirm Marxism-Leninism and collective responsibility for defending socialism.
The policy later called the Brezhnev Doctrine asserts a Soviet right to defend Communist rule within the Eastern Bloc.
Brezhnev secures support from allied Warsaw Pact leaders for intervention against the Prague Spring.
The Soviet leadership approves military intervention against the Prague Spring reform movement.
Soviet forces detain Alexander Dubcek and other Czechoslovak reform leaders during the Warsaw Pact intervention.
Dubcek and other detained Czechoslovak leaders are taken to Moscow for negotiations with the Soviet leadership.
Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia and end the Prague Spring reform experiment.
Oversees negotiations resulting in the Moscow Protocol after the invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Publicly articulates the principle of limited sovereignty later widely known as the Brezhnev Doctrine.
Publication of "The First Circle". Publication of "Cancer Ward"
Death of Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky
Death of Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin
Becomes head of the construction department of the Sverdlovsk regional Communist Party committee.
Publication of "The First Circle". Publication of "Cancer Ward"
Publication of "The First Circle". Publication of "Cancer Ward"
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