The Collapse of the Soviet Union

the ruling committee of the Communist Party

• Politburo

• Communists

• Gorbachev Party

• Perestroika

___________&__________crushed all political disagreement.

• Leonid Brezhnev

  &

  Poiltburo

• Leonid Brezhnev

  &

  Yeltsin

• Politburo

  &

  Gorbachev

• Leonid Brezhnev

  &

  Gorbachev

Youngest Soviet Leader since Stalin:_________________

• Gorbachev

• Politburo

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Yeltsin

The goal of Mikhail Gorbachev’s policies of Perestroika and Glasnost was to

• stop expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) into Eastern Europe

• expand collectivization and communes

• stimulate economic growth and political discussion

• resume development of Soviet nuclear weapons

Mikhail Gorbachev contributed to the fall of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe by

• signing the Camp David Accords

• introducing the policies of Perestroika and Glasnost

• invading Afghanistan

• violating nuclear arms agreements

One reason Mikhail Gorbachev implemented the policies of Glasnost and Perestroika in the Soviet Union was to

• eliminate freedom of speech and press

• encourage political discussion and economic reform

• dominate the governments of Eastern Europe

• destroy the power of the opposition party

Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms of Perestroika and Glasnost resulted in

• an era of world peace and Soviet prosperity

• censorship of the news media in Russia

• a successful transition to a command economy in Russia

• conditions that helped lead to the breakup of the Soviet Union

openess (allowed churches to open, etc)

• perestroika

• glasnost

• Politburo

• Freedom of Speech

an abrupt shift to free-market economics

• perestroika

• shock therapy

• Politburo

• Freedom of Speech

Worked 15 years as an intelligence officer in the KGB:

• Vladimir Putin

• Boris Yeltsin

• Leonid Bezhnev