Fall of the USSR

• What did Gorbachev endorse?

  Western values and human rights
• What year was the 19th Party Congress in which Yeltsin attacked Party conservatives?

  1988
• What year did Yeltsin become Chair of the Russian Congress of People's deputies?

  1990
• What year did Yetsin abolish single-party rule?

  1991
• What does 'Perestroika' mean?

  Reconstruction
• What does 'Glasnost' mean?

  Openness
• What year was Perestroika?

  1985 to 1991
• What year was Glasnost?

  1986
• When did the fall of the Baltic States?

  Late 1980s
• What triggered the fall of the states?

  Chernobyl
• 5 Baltic states that had declared independence by 1991?

  Lithuania, Georgia , Azerbaijan, Latvia, Estonia
• What was the decline in economic growth between 1950 and 1980?

  7.1% to 0.6%
• What was Rationalisation?


  1985 to 1986
• When was Reform?


  1987 to 1990
• When was Transformation?


  1990 to 1991
• What was Gosplan?


  The state planning committee
• When did Gosplan cease to exist?

  April 1991
• What happened during the coup of 1991?


  Lenin statues destroyed, CP suspended
• When was Demokratizatsiya?


  1989