The lower house of the Russian parliament is called the __________.
a. Chamber of Deputies.
b. Central Committee.
c. Politburo.
d. Federation Council.
e. Duma.
Q. 2The Western-inspired policy of privatizing state-owned industries and rapidly converting to a free market economy is known by what name?
a. Gradualism
b. Monetarism
c. Laissez-faire
d. Shock therapy
e. Convulsive economics
Q. 3The first elected president of Russia was __________.
a. Yeltsin
b. Grishin
c. Gorbachev
d. Sakharov
e. Zhirinovsky
Q. 4Under Gorbachev, attempts to reform communist economies were called __________.
a. new thinking
b. demokratziya
c. perestroika
d. glasnost
e. nomenklatura
Q. 5In the 1980s, Soviet censors stopped reviewing most works of literature and journalism before they were published. This was an example of ___________.
a. nomenklatura
b. gosplan
c. yabloko
d. glasnost'
e. perestroika
Q. 6The last reformist leader of the Soviet Union was ___________.
a. Yeltsin
b. Grishin
c. Gorbachev
d. Sakharov
e. Zhirinovsky
Q. 7Under Gorbachev, the reforms that gave people more freedom to express their views was called __________.
a. new thinking
b. demokratziya
c. perestroika
d. glasnost'
e. nomenklatura
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