The Ethnic Tensions That Resulted as an Unanticipated By-Product of Glasnost

question 74

Multiple Choice

The ethnic tensions that resulted as an unanticipated by-product of glasnost were caused by

• A) the encouragement of these feelings from the gulag.
• B) a combination of the statement of long-suppressed feelings as a result of new freedoms, the inability of the army to control the resulting violence.
• C) the desire on the part of many ethnic minorities to retain the dominance of communism throughout the Soviet Union.
• D) the relaxation of Gorbachev's iron grip on the Soviet system.
• E) the demands of Josip Broz Tito.

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