The Collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Ruling committee of the Communist Party.

• Politburo
• Glasnost
• CIS
• Bolsheviks 

Soviet leader who made legislative changes that opened up the Soviet Union to new ideas and economic policies.  

• Boris Yeltsin
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Nikita Kruschev 
• Lech Walesa

The concept of opening up Soviet society through the publishing of previously banned books, the free flow of ideas (press), and releasing political prisoners. 

• Perestroika
• Shock Therapy
• Glasnost
• Solidarity

The loosening of government control and regulation relating Soviet businesses.  

• Glasnost
• Perestroika
• CIS
• Shock Therapy

This country declared itself independent of the Soviet Union in 1990.   Premier Gorbachev immediately sent in troops and 14 people were killed. 

• Estonia
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Belarus

Which of the following was NOT a progressive decision made by Premier Gorbachev?

• Ending the arms race with the US
• Allowing for open elections
• Glasnost (political openness) 
• Shock Therapy

A loose federation of 15 republics, including Russia, that formed an economic alliance after the collapse of the Soviet Union.  

• CIS
• USSR
• NATO
• Warsaw Pact

The policy aimed at transitioning Russia from a communist to a free market (capitalist) economy.  

• Glasnost
• Shock Therapy
• Perestroika
• Socialism 

The hand-picked successor of Boris Yeltsin

• Vladamir Putin
• Victor Yuschenko 
• Mikail Gorbachev 
• Dmitry Medvedev

Russia dealt harshly with uprisings in what southern territory?

• Dagestan
• Chechnya
• Sochi
• Crimea