In a 1968 speech before Polish workers, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev justifies the U.S.S.R.'s invasion of Czechoslovakia. The speech has come to be known as the Brezhnev Doctrine. This web site is hosted by the Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham University.

Photo images with captions of the signing of the Helsinki Accords by General Secretary Brezhnev and President Ford. Site maintained by the Gerald R. Ford Museum and Library at the University of Texas.

Read the text of a 1965 letter to Brezhnev from several Soviet cosmonauts addressing their concerns over the progress of the American space program and how it had surpassed the Soviet efforts. Site maintained by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Links to several de-classified documents related to the ABM (anti-ballistic missile) treaty are provided within this overview of U.S./Soviet relations during the Nixon and Brezhnev administrations (1969-1972). From the National Security Archive, this web site is hosted by George Washington University.

Read background history concerning the SALT II treaty as well as the text of the document, signed by President Carter and General Secretary Brezhnev in Vienna June 18, 1979. Site maintained by the U.S. Department of State.

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