Gorbachev's Twin Policies of Openness and Restructuring Were Primarily Intended

question 38

Multiple Choice

Gorbachev's twin policies of openness and restructuring were primarily intended to

• A) bring a slow but definite breakup of the Soviet Union.
• B) disorient the population as the ruling elites regrouped.
• C) generate genuine civic cooperation with the Communist government to revitalize the Soviet system.
• D) defuse the growing grass-roots discontent in Eastern Europe embodied in Poland's Solidarity movement.
• E) revitalize the stagnating economy without changing the Soviet political system.

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