Who replaced Boris Yeltsin after his sudden resignation?
a. Mikhail Gorbachev
b. Dmitry Medvedev
c. Alexander Rutskoi
d. Vladimir Putin
Q. 2What event happened on December 25, 1991?
a. The Soviet Union was given veto power in the United Nations.
b. Civil war broke out in Georgia.
c. Nikita Khrushchev stationed warheads in Cuba.
d. The Soviet Union collapsed.
Q. 3Gorbachev's goal of making the socialist system more efficient and democratic was undermined by all of the following EXCEPT
a. he lacked legitimacy, preaching democratic accountability but was never popularly elected to office.
b. he found himself caught between liberals who thought his reforms too timid and conservatives who thought that he had gone too far.
c. his reforms brought into the open tensions among the Soviet republics, problems that made it difficult to keep the USSR together.
d. he did not have the support of the Russian people who were resistant to democratic change and refused to participate in early elections.
Q. 4Mikhail Gorbachev sought to change the status quo in the Soviet Union with his restructuring of the Soviet economic and political system, under the plan known as
a. glasnost.
b. perestroika.
c. patrimonialism.
d. democratization.
Q. 5Under Leonid Brezhnev,
a. the Soviet Union established its technological prowess, launching a space program that sent the first satellite, and the first human, into space in 1961
b. the United States and the Soviet Union clashed in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
c. the Soviet Union launched the invasion of Afghanistan, a costly and unpopular war.
d. the Soviet Union established two reforms known as glasnost, and demokratizatsiia.
Q. 6Under Nikita Khrushchev,
a. the reign of terror initiated under previous rulers intensified.
b. the idea of collective leadership was criticized, ridiculed and ultimately rejected.
c. the USSR confronted the U.S. over the issue of nuclear warheads in Cuba.
d. public speeches were given extolling the virtues of Lenin's government.
Q. 7Stalin established a ____________ economy, in which all economic decisions involving what to produce, when to produce, and at what prices goods should be sold were made by state planners.
a. command
b. fair trade
c. free market
d. supply-side
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