What Changes in Communist Policy Occurs During the Leadership of Brezhnev

question 38

Multiple Choice

What changes in communist policy occurs during the leadership of Brezhnev?

• A) Andrei Sakharov was sent to Siberia at hard labor.
• B) Ties with Russia's satellite states were tightened.
• C) The Russians were permitted some increased contact with the Western world.
• D) Anti-Semitism resulted in the ejection of Jews from the Soviet Union.
• E) Personal dictatorship was strengthened in the Soviet Union.

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Definitions:

Condorcet Paradox

A situation in social choice theory where collective preferences can be cyclic (i.e., A is preferred to B, B is preferred to C, and C is preferred to A), showing the non-transitivity of majority preferences.

Arrow Impossibility Theorem

A theorem stating that no rank-order voting system can be designed that always satisfies three fairness criteria: non-dictatorship, Pareto efficiency, and independence of irrelevant alternatives.

Pairwise Majority Voting

A voting system in which decisions are made by comparing the preferences of the majority for each pair of options in turn.

Symbolism

A late-19th-century movement based on the idea that the artist was not an imitator of nature but a creator who transformed the facts of nature into a symbol of the inner experience of that fact.