In 1991, a Group of Antireform Hard-Liners That Included the Head

question 25

Multiple Choice

In 1991, a group of antireform hard-liners that included the head of the Soviet secret police attempted a coup in the USSR in response to what event?

• A) The Russian parliament's election of Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian republic
• B) Mikhail Gorbachev's decision to further liberalize the Soviet economy and his pronouncement that there was "no alternative to the transition to the market"
• C) President Boris Yeltsin's call for the dissolution of the Communist Party
• D) Gorbachev and Kohl's agreement that the USSR would completely withdraw its forces from East German soil within the next four years

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