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Which Soviet leader introduced glasnost and perestroika in the Soviet Union?

ALeonid Brezhnev

BMikhail Gorbachev

CJoseph Stalin

DNikita Khrushchev

Answer:

B. Mikhail Gorbachev

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Disintegration of the Soviet Union

What led to the disintegration of Soviet Union:

  • The administrative measures of Mikhail Gorbachev (Glasnost and Perestroika)

  • Deviation from the basic principles of socialism

  • Corruption and inefficiency of the bureaucracy.

  • Failure in bringing about changes in economic sector

  • Glasnost and Perestroika were Mikhail Gorbachev's two administrative reforms in Soviet Union.

  • Glasnost was to implement openness in political processes. Accordingly, regulation on media and civil rights was taken off.

  • Perestroika was implemented to restructure the economic system of Soviet Union. Perestroika called for ending the price controls on production sector established by the government and abating centralization

  • With the resignation of Gorbachev as President in 1991, Soviet Union formally ceased to exist. Naturally, this ended cold war.

  • The disintegration of the Soviet Union had a wide impact on international relations.

  • A unipolar world has emerged under the leadership of the USA in the place of a bipolar one.

First Indochina War (1945-1954)

  • Vietnam declared independence from France on September 2, 1945, following Japan's defeat in World War II, with Ho Chi Minh as President.

Vietnam War (1955-1975)

  • The Geneva Accords (1954) divided Vietnam into North (communist) and South (anti-communist), leading to a prolonged conflict between the two, with US involvement

  • The Vietnam War was a brutal and contentious conflict lasting from 1955 to 1975. It pitted communist North Vietnam, backed by the Soviet Union and China, against anti-communist South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other allies. This clash ended with North Vietnam's victory and reunification of the country. It became a defining chapter of the Cold War, leaving deep scars on both nations.


Related Questions:

What led to the disintegration of Soviet Union:

  1. The administrative measures of Mikhail Gorbachev
  2. Corruption and inefficiency of the bureaucracy.
  3. Failure in bringing about changes in economic sector
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    .................. was implemented to restructure the economic system of Soviet Union.
    The USA and the USSR that formed anti-fascist alliance during the Second World War parted from each other after the war. The USA floated a new alliance of capitalist countries while the USSR led socialist nations. These two blocs- capitalist bloc and socialist bloc that represented contradictory ideas- continued their political and diplomatic wars. This enmity based on ideological conflict and diplomatic confrontations was called :