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    Gorbachev attempted reforms to open up the Soviet political and economic system through policies of glasnost and perestroika. However, this weakened the Soviet Union and empowered independence movements among Soviet republics. In 1991, hardliners launched a coup against Gorbachev while he was on vacation, but it failed due to public opposition. Following the coup, the Soviet republics declared independence and the Soviet Union dissolved. Boris Yeltsin became the president of the new Russian Federation.

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    Gorbachev attempted reforms to open up the Soviet political and economic system through policies of glasnost and perestroika. However, this weakened the Soviet Union and empowered independence movements among Soviet republics. In 1991, hardliners launched a coup against Gorbachev while he was on vacation, but it failed due to public opposition. Following the coup, the Soviet republics declared independence and the Soviet Union dissolved. Boris Yeltsin became the president of the new Russian Federation.

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    Gorbachev attempted reforms to open up the Soviet political and economic system through policies of glasnost and perestroika. However, this weakened the Soviet Union and empowered independence movements among Soviet republics. In 1991, hardliners launched a coup against Gorbachev while he was on vacation, but it failed due to public opposition. Following the coup, the Soviet republics declared independence and the Soviet Union dissolved. Boris Yeltsin became the president of the new Russian Federation.

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    The Collapse of the Soviet Union

    a. Politburo -The Politburo was the ruling committee of the communist party.
    b. Soviet hardliners Soviet hardliners are old Bolsheviks who did not want
    changes because Gorbachev was making changes to the government, they wanted to
    get rid of him.
    c. coup coup is a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.
    CIS CIS stands for Commonwealth of Independent States.
    e. shock therapy Shock therapy was an abrupt shift to free-market economics.1.
    Identify and define two early changes that Gorbachev made? How were these
    changes different from previous Soviet leaders? Two early changes that
    Gorbachev made were adding the idea of Glasnost, or openness, and Perestroika.
    2. Why would it be ineffective for the central government to decide what should
    be produced all over the country? It would be wrong for the central government to
    decide what should be produced all over the country because many factories are
    dependent on government money.
    3. Explain Gorbachevs third reform and how it would help to move the country
    toward democracy. Gorbachevs third reform was democratization. This plan helped
    move the country toward democracy because he gave voters the opportunity to
    choose.
    4. What was the INF Treaty? Why did Gorbachev agree to sign it? What effect do
    you think this Treaty had on the Cold War? Gorbachev singed the treaty because
    he realized that the Soviet economy could not afford it. This gave Russia a
    disadvantage.
    5. What effect did Gorbachevs reforms have on Russian ethnic minorities?
    Various nationalities were now demanding their freedom, and there were more
    than one hundred ethnic groups in the Soviet Union.

    6. Which satellite nation was first to defy Gorbachev? How did Gorbachev
    respond? The first satellite nation to defy Gorbachev was Lithuania. Gorbachev

    responded by ordering the economic blockade of the republic; he ordered Soviet


    troops to attack unarmed citizens.
    7. What was Boris Yeltsins position in Soviet government? Why did he oppose
    Gorbachev?
    Yeltsin was a member of the parliament, and the mayor of Moscow. He criticized
    Gorbachev on his slow pace of reforms in russia.
    9. What was the August Coup? Who orchestrated it?
    The August Coup occurred on August 18, 1991, when the hard-liners detained
    Gorbachev at his vacation home at the Black Sea, and demanded his resignation as
    Soviet president, because they did not like the changes that he was making.
    10. What were the most important reasons for the failure of the Coup?
    The coup attempt sparked anger against the communist party, resulting in
    Gorbachevs resignation as the general secretary. This lead to the collapse of the
    USSR.
    11. How did the 15 soviet Republics respond to the failed Coup? Even though
    Gorbachev wanted unity nobody listened and to follow in December, all fifteen
    republics declared independence.
    12. When Gorbachev stepped down as president, who became the next president?
    Boris Yeltsin was then elected as president after Gorbachev stepped down.
    13. What was the new name of the Soviet Union after this coup?
    The Soviet Union simply became known as Russia.
    14. What was Yeltsin attempting to do by forming the CIS? What effect would it
    have on the traditional Soviet Union?
    The Commonwealth of Independent States was a loose federation of former Soviet
    Territories. Yeltsin wanted to start a new course for the federation.
    15. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Yeltsin was faced with economic issues.
    What did he do to attempt to solve these issues? Did it work? Why or why not?

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