8.3 Quiz

Which leader of the Soviet Union instituted the reforms of glasnost and perestroika?

• Nikita Kruschev

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Joseph Stalin

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Vladimir Lenin

What reforms did glasnost bring to the Soviet Union?

• Openness of the government

• Accountability of government officials

• Some freedom of speech

• All of the above

• None of the above

What did perestroika mean?

• Restructuring

•      Industrialization

• Information

• Democracy

• Capitalism

Which political leader introduced programs that moved the USSR away from totalitarianism, and increased economic freedom and political rights?

• Mikhail Gorbechev

• Joseph Stalin

• Boris Yeltsin

• Vladimir Putin

Which new Soviet policy granted the people of the USSR more decision making power and greater access to private ownership of businesses?

• perestroika

• glasnost

• democratization

• shock therapy

Which of Gorbachev's programs created more openness, more public participation in government, and greater individual rights were given to Soviet citizens?

• glasnost

• perestroika

• democratizatsiya

• shock therapy

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

• introducing the policies of Perestroika and Glasnost

• violating nuclear arms agreements

• invading Afghanistan

• signing the Camp David Accords

Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms of Perestroika and Glasnost resulted in

• an era of world peace and Soviet prosperity

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

• a successful transition to a command economy in Russia

• censorship of the news media in Russia

Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. He tried to liberate the USSR in order to improve relations with the West. He lost his power after his reforms resulted in Communist governments in eastern Europe collapsing.

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Boris Yeltsin

Was the first President of the Russian Federation from 1991 to 1999. This era was a traumatic period in Russian history— marked by widespread corruption, economic collapse, and enormous political and social problems.

• Boris Yeltsin

• Vladimir Putin