Yeltsin 2

Question 1

YELTSIN AND NEW ELITE:

1. Who did Yeltsin represent the interests of?
2. How many of the 230 ministers under Gorbachev from 1985-91 were still ministers under Yeltsin’s govt after the coup?
3. What % of Yeltsin’s govt had had middle-ranking positions in Gorbachev’s govt?
   - What % of Yeltsin’s new govt had been elected to any of Gorbachev’s new democratic institutions?

Answer 1

1. Middle-ranking CP officials.
2. Nine.
3. 70%.
   - 13%.

Question 2

YELTSIN, THE COUP AND COUNTER-COUP:

1. What did Yeltsin order the suspension of?
2. When did he officially ban the CP in Russia?
3. Yeltsin tended to attack the ______ rather than the ______.

Answer 2

1. The Communist Party.
2. November 1991.
3. Party, union.

Question 3

YELTSIN AND THE UNION:

1. What did Yeltsin create instead of reviving the USSR?
2. He assumed that what would be quicker and easier in Russia only?
3. In December 1991, what did Yeltsin persuade the leaders of the Soviet military to do?

Answer 3

1. Commonwealth of Independent States.
2. Economic reconstruction.
3. Abandon USSR and form new Russian Army.