Boris Yeltsin's Role in the Disintegration of the Soviet Union

question 64

Multiple Choice

Boris Yeltsin's role in the disintegration of the Soviet Union included

• A)working as an ally of Gorbachev to save the Communist Party by opening party institutions to electoral politics.
• B)leading the old guard Communists who sought to kidnap Gorbachev and seize power in the Soviet Union in order to crush the reform movement.
• C)emerging as a radical reform Communist who embraced the democratic movement and led Russia to declare independence from the Soviet Union.
• D)directing the Soviet effort to quash Lithuanian claims of independence.

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