Question

These development were accompanied by a rapidly escalating crisis within the USSR that hastened it’s

disintegration, Gorbachev initiated the policies of economic and political reforms and democratization within

the country. The leaders within the communist Party opposed the idea.

a. Which development hastened the disintegration of Soviet Union. 2m

b. What was the outcome of opposing the reforms initiated by Gorbachev? 2m

c. How did Boris Yeltsin emerged as a national hero?​

Answer 1

a. Which development hastened the disintegration of Soviet Union.

   perestroika

Mikhail Gorbachev introduced perestroika to transform the Soviet Union, but it hastened its collapse. Just six years after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power as General Secretary of the Communist Party and introduced reforms, the Soviet Union collapsed and newly formed independent nations arose from the ashes.