"On the Left" in the Soviet Union Referred to

question 30

Multiple Choice

"On the left" in the Soviet Union referred to

• A)overtime pay received by unionized communist workers.
• B)extra labor required of inhabitants of the gulag.
• C)the ideology of hard-line communists who were opposed Gorbachev's reforms.
• D)buying scarce goods in the black market.
• E)Soviet secret police's extra assignment as reserve infantry soldiers.

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