Communism Collapse in the USSR Flashcards

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When did Communism collapse in the Soviet Union

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1991

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Soviet leader who helped bring an end to Communism in the Soviet Union

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Perestroika

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a program in which Gorbachev changed the economy of the Soviet Union from a communist to a capitalist economy

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Glasnost

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a program in which Gorbachev allowed freedom of speech within the Soviet Union
(Democracy)

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Boris Yeltsin

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first democratically elected president in the history of Russia

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