Fall of the Soviet Union Vocabulary Review

Literally “restructuring” in Russian. refers to a series of political and economic reforms meant to kick-start the stagnant 1980s economy of the Soviet Union.

• Perestroika

• Glasnost

• Democratization

• Stagnation

A concept relating to openness and transparency.

• Perestroika

• Glasnost

• Stagnation

• Democratization

The structural government transition from an authoritarian government to a more democratic political regime.

• Perestroika

• Glasnost

• Democratization

• Stagnation

The state of not moving or making progress; lack of development or advancement.

• Stagnation

• Perestroika

• Democratization

• Glasnost

A Soviet foreign policy that proclaimed that any threat to "socialist rule" in any state of the Soviet Bloc in Central and Eastern Europe was a threat to all of them

• Brezhnev Doctrine

• Truman Doctrine

• Stalin Doctrine

• Khrushchev Doctrine

The act or process of bringing together again or reuniting

• Reunification

• Stagnation

• Dissolution

• Decentralize

To engage in a competition or struggle for control or dominance

• Contested

• Dissolution

• Decentralize

• Ethnic Separatism

To transfer power or authority from a central authority to local or regional authorities

• Decentralize

• Dissolution

• Reunification

• Democratization

 The act of formally ending or disbanding something, such as a political entity or organization.

• Stagnation

• Reunification

• Decentralize

• Dissolution

Ethnic nations seek either autonomy or to break away from the states that govern them 

• Ethnic Separatism

• Ethnic Nationalism

• Ethnic Cleansing

• Ethnic Democracy