The Fall of the Soviet Union
Gorbachev's reforms and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe.
Key Questions
- 1How did Glasnost and Perestroika inadvertently lead to the end of the USSR?
- 2What role did popular movements in Poland and East Germany play in the collapse?
- 3How did the end of the Cold War lead to a "unipolar" world?
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