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pragya sharda

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Gorbachev's goal of making the socialist system more efficient and democratic was undermined by all of the following EXCEPT
 
  a. he lacked legitimacy, preaching democratic accountability but was never popularly elected to office.
  b. he found himself caught between liberals who thought his reforms too timid and conservatives who thought that he had gone too far.
  c. his reforms brought into the open tensions among the Soviet republics, problems that made it difficult to keep the USSR together.
  d. he did not have the support of the Russian people who were resistant to democratic change and refused to participate in early elections.

Question 2

Mikhail Gorbachev sought to change the status quo in the Soviet Union with his restructuring of the Soviet economic and political system, under the plan known as
 
  a. glasnost.
  b. perestroika.
  c. patrimonialism.
  d. democratization.



nathang24

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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

b



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