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Which leader promoted glasnost?

Ronald Reagan

Leonid Brezhnev

Mikhail Gorbachev

George H.W. Bush

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Glasnost

Détente

Perestroika

Democracy

How did Reagan’s approach toward the USSR shift after Gorbachev came to power?

Reagan agreed to ban all nuclear missiles.

Reagan agreed to meet openly with Soviet leaders.

Reagan agreed to increase involvement in conflicts.

Reagan agreed to end all Cold War policies.

In the 1980s, more Russians worked to encourage change in the government by

establishing a new political system.

rallying for democratic reforms.

supporting the democratic system.

resisting Gorbachev’s reforms.

Who tried to seize control of the Soviet government in an attempted coup d’etat in 1991?

hard-line leaders

Boris Yeltsin

army troops

Mikhail Gorbachev

The policy of glasnost allowed for

unlimited freedom of the Russian press.

criticism of government officials.

government control of the press.

total revision of Russian history.

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