What is restructuring to reduce the size and importance of the centralized economic ministries?
100
The most violent of the Eastern European revolutions occurred in ____.
What is Romania?
100
The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party did this in response to Gorbachev's proposition of 1990.
What is abandon it's monopoly of power?
100
Yeltsin became president of the ____ _____ in ____.
What is the Russian Republic in 1990?
100
____ Gorbachev
What is Mikhail?
200
Describe the policy of Glasnost.
What is openness, or allowed discussion and criticism of the history of the Soviet Union?
200
This major event inspired the revolution in Czechoslovakia and the reunification of Germany.
What is the collapse of the Berlin Wall?
200
Describe the August 1991 coup.
What is troops occupied Moscow, Gorbachev was placed under house arrest in Crimea, and the coup collapsed within two days, with Yeltsin rising as the dominant political figure?
200
This resulted in Yeltsin's deposition.
What is Yeltsin's suspension of the Russian Parliament?
200
Which president is pictured with Gorbachev on page 965?
Who is Ronald Reagan?
300
When and why were contested elections allowed?
What is the new constitution of 1988?
300
Name the trade union that led the Polish revolution.
What is Solidarity?
300
The new political parties that challenged the Communist Party ideals wanted to move towards ____.
What is democracy?
300
This group helped consolidate Yeltsin's authority.
Who is the military?
300
This man climbed on top of a tank.
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
400
This group conducted a major strike in 1989 that could have debilitated the already failing economy if Gorbachev hadn't settled their grievances quickly.
Who are Siberian coal miners?
400
The Hungarian Communist Party changed it's name to the ____ ____ in 1989.
What is the Socialist Party?
400
Name the three states that created the most tension within the Soviet Union.
What are Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (the Baltic states)?
400
Yeltsin's hand-picked replacement.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
400
Name the type of fabric that is the namesake of an event in this section.
What is velvet, as in the Czechoslovakian velvet revolution?
500
The ___ ___ was dominated by the communist party and officially elected Gorbachev president in ____.
What is the Supreme Soviet in 1989?
500
The revolutions in Eastern Europe were able to happen because _______.
What is the Soviet Union would not support the communist leaders of these countries and would not get militarily involved?
500
Name three causes of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
What are economic stagnation, social turmoil and new political forces?
500
Describe the effect the fall of communism had on Marxism.
What is Marxist socialism was discredited and socialism as a whole was viewed as suspect.
500
Name the two inserts in this section of reading.
What are Rock Music and Political Protest and Collapse of the Berlin Wall?