Gorbachev's Mistakes

Question 1

1. What did Gorbachev fail to anticipate do with Glasnost?
2. What did he refuse to do after embracing democracy?
3. Why did he fail to win over the CP (in basic terms)?

Answer 1

1. How much it would undermine the CP’s claims.
2. Stand for election.
3. Because he was trying to please both radicals and conservatives.

Question 2

1. What did Gorbachev’s mistakes undermine?

2. Therefore, he no longer had the power to do what?

Answer 2

1. CP authority.

2. Hold the union together.

Question 3

1. What did the CCP in China manage to do without increasing political freedom?
2. China embraced market reform more ______ and _________ than the USSR.

Answer 3

1. Introduce economic reform.

2. Quickly and comprehensively.