12 B The End of Bipolarity

Which two republics of the USSR have had violent secessionist movements at the time of its disintegration?

• Czechs & Slovaks

• Chechnya & Dagestan

• Tajikistan & Kyrgyzstan

• Croatia and Slovenia

Which of the following countries declared that the Soviet Union was disbanded in December 1991

• RUSSIA, UKRAINE AND TURKMENISTAN

• RUSSIA, TURKMENISTAN AND BELARUS

• RUSSIA, BELARUS and UKRAINE

• RUSSIA, BELARUS AND GERGIA

Which of the following country was accepted as the successor state of the Soviet Union in the UN Security Council

• Belarus

• Russia

• Georgia

• Kazakhstan

Which of the following areas possesses vast hydrocarbon resources

• the central asian republics

• the middle east countries

• eastern europe

• the Baltic States

For how many years did the Civil war continue in Tajikistan?

• 5

• 10

• 15

• 20

Arrange the following events in chronological order and choose the correct option:

(i) The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

(ii) End of civil war in Tajikistan.

(iii) A military coup by the Communist Party hardliners.

(iv) Russian Revolution.

• a. (i),(ii),(iii),(iv)

• b. (ii), (i), (iv), (iii)

• c. (iv),(i),(iii),(ii)

• d. (iii), (i), (ii), (iv)

The USSR came into being after the socialist revolution in Russia in

• 1915

• 1916

• 1917

• 1918

Who among the following is the first elected President of Russia

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Vladmir Putin

• Boris Yeltsin

• Brezhnev

Which among the following is NOT an outcome of the disintegration of the USSR?

• End of the ideological war between the US and USSR

• Birth of CIS

• Change in the balance of power in the world order

• Crisis in the Middle East

What federation was formed following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991?

• the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic

• the Commonwealth of Independent States

• the Russian Political Confederation

• the Soviet Block Republic