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Answer all the questions under each caption.

Disintegration of The Soviet Union.

(a) Who became the head of USSR in 1985?

(b) What is meant by “thaw”?

(c) What is meant by Glasnost?

(d) What is meant by Perestroika?

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(a) Mikhail Gorbachev became the head of the USSR in 1985.

(b) The “Thaw” refers to the period from the early 1950’s and 1960’s when repression and censorship in the Soviet Union was relaxed and millions of political prisioners were released. It was the period of Khrushchev’s reign.

(c) Glasnost means openness. It was the policy of more transperancy and openness in the government policy of former Soviet Russia introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev.

(d) Perestroika means restructuring. It refers to the programme introduced by Mikhail Gorbhachev to restructure Soviet economic and political system.

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