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Question 1

WHEN DID BERLIN WALL FALL ?

Answer 1

1989

REPRESENT TWO ECO - CAPITALIST AND SOCIALIST

8 EAST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES replaced there govt. - from communist

Question 2

when did berlin wall was built ?

Answer 2

1961 - 150 km long
wall stood for 28 years

broken in : 9 November 1989.

Question 3

The Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR) came into being
after the

Answer 3

socialist revolution in - 1917

ideals of socialism,
as opposed to capitalism, and the
need for an egalitarian society

Question 4

what is Second
World or the ‘socialist bloc

Answer 4

After the Second World War,
the east European countries that
the Soviet army had liberated from
the fascist forces came under the
control of the USSR.

Question 5

The Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan in

Answer 5

1979

Question 6

Mikhail Gorbachev, who had
become General Secretary of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union in

Answer 6

1985

sought to reform

Question 7

A coup took place in ……… that
was encouraged by Communist
Party hardliners after mikhail gorbachev reform failure .

Answer 7

1991 by boris Yeltsin
emerged as a national hero in
opposing this coup.

• Russian
  Republic, where Yeltsin won a
  popular election, began to shake
  off centralised control.*

Question 8

In………….,
under the leadership of Yeltsin,
………………………,
three major republics of the
USSR, declared that the Soviet
Union was disbanded.

Answer 8

dec 1991
russia
ukraine and belarus

** The
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union was banned. **

Question 9

after disintegration of soviet what formation left asian powers in shocked ?

Answer 9

formation of the Commonwealth
of Independent States (CIS)

Question 10

which country was successor of ussr ?

Answer 10

Russia
It inherited the Soviet seat
in the UN Security Council.
only nuclear state of the postSoviet space

Question 11

why soviet disintegrate ?

Answer 11

1.internal weaknesses of Soviet
political and economic institutions and stagnation ,
which failed to meet the
aspirations of the people.
2. lack of democracy

why ? its resources in
maintaining a nuclear and
military arsenal and the
development of its satellite states
in Eastern Europe and within the
Soviet system (the five Central
Asian Republics in particular).

Question 12

immediate cause of soviet disintegration

Answer 12

various
republics including Russia and the
Baltic Republics (Estonia, Latvia
and Lithuania), Ukraine, Georgia,
and others proved to be the final
and most immediate cause for the
disintegration of the USSR.

Question 13

baltic republics includes

Answer 13

estonia
latvia
lithuania

Question 14

when did independence movement begins in Lithuania; later spreads to Estonia
and Latvia

Answer 14

1988

Question 15

Soviet Union declares that the Warsaw Pact members are free
to decide their own futures; Berlin Wall falls in November

Answer 15

1989 oct

Question 16

when did Gorbachev strips the Soviet Communist Party of its 72-year-long
monopoly on power by calling on the Soviet parliament (Duma) to permit multiparty politics?

Answer 16

1990 February

Question 17

Lithuania becomes the first of the 15 Soviet republics to declare its
independence

Answer 17

1990 march

Question 18

** Russian parliament** declares its independence from the Soviet Union

Answer 18

1990

Question 19

Yeltsin, no longer in the Communist Party, becomes the President of
Russia.

Answer 19

1991,june

Question 20

Three Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania become
UN members (later join NATO in March 2004)

Answer 20

1991, september

Question 21

Gorbachev resigns as the President of the Soviet Union; the
end of the Soviet Union

Answer 21

25 dec, 1991

Question 22

Russia, Belarus and Ukraine decide to annul the Treaty
on ……………… to form commonwealth of independent states

Answer 22

the 1922 Treaty
on the Creation of the USSR and establish the Commonwealth of Independent
States (CIS)

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the CIS (Georgia joins later in 1993); Russia
takes over the USSR seat in the United Nations

Question 23

Mikhail
Gorbachev(Born 1931)
Last leader of the
Soviet Union
(1985-91)

Answer 23

1.policies of
perestroika
(restructuring)
and glasnost
(openness)
2.withdrew Soviet
troops from
Afghanistan and
eastern Europe
3.unification of
Germany.

Question 24

Boris Yeltsin (Born
1931)

Answer 24

1.The first elected
President of
Russia (1991-
1999).
2. was made
the Mayor of
Moscow by
Gorbachev

Question 25

what is SHOCK THERAPY IN
POST-COMMUNIST REGIMES

Answer 25

The model of
transition in Russia, Central Asia
and east Europe that was
influenced by the World Bank
and the IMF came to be known
as ‘shock therapy’.

Question 26

CONSEQUENCES OF SHOCK
THERAPY

Answer 26

1. 90 per cent of its industries
   were put up for sale to private
   individuals and companies.[‘the largest garage
   sale in history’,]
   2.The value of the ruble, the
   Russian currency.
   3.The
   real GDP of Russia in 1999 was
   below what it was in 1989.

Question 27

The presidents of
………..
appointed themselves to power
first for ten years and then
extended it for another ten years.

Answer 27

Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan

Question 28

major oil producres

Answer 28

Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan
and Uzbekistan are major oil and gas
producers.

Question 29

In Russia, two republics,
………………, have
had violent secessionist
movements.

Answer 29

Chechnya and Dagestan

Question 30

Tajikistan
witnessed a civil war that went on
for ten years till

Answer 30

2001

Question 31

In Azerbaijan’s province
of ………………, some local
Armenians want to secede and
join Armenia.

Answer 31

Nagorno-Karabakh

Question 32

In Georgia, the
demand for independence has
come from …………..,
resulting in a civil war.

Answer 32

2 provinance

Question 33

The Central Asian Republics are
areas what bought them economic benefits ?

Answer 33

vast hydrocarbon
resources

Question 34

when did US started hiring bases in central asia

Answer 34

After 11
September 2001

helped in afganistan and iraq

Question 35

In eastern Europe,
Czechoslovakia split peacefully
into two, with the …………. forming independent
countries.

Answer 35

Czechs and the
Slovaks

Question 36

conflict in BALKAN REGION break into states namely -

Answer 36

Croatia, Slovenia
and Bosnia and Herzegovina

most severe
conflict took place in the Balkan
republics of Yugoslavia.

Serbs opposed this, and a
massacre of non-Serb Bosnians
followed.

Question 37

More than………….. bilateral agreements have been signed
between India and Russia as part of the Indo-Russian
Strategic Agreement of 2001.

Answer 37

80

Question 38

Russia helped India economically -

Answer 38

technical assistance for steel plants
like Bhilai, Bokaro, Visakhapatnam,
and machinery plants like Bharat
Heavy Electricals Ltd., etc. The Soviet
Union accepted Indian currency for
trade when India was short of foreign
exchange.

Question 39

SOVIET POLITICAL SUPPORT TO INDIA

Answer 39

war with Pakistan in 1971.

Question 40

Russia is important for
India’s nuclear energy plans and
assisted India’s space industry by
giving………….

Answer 40

the cryogenic
rocket

Question 41

INDIA’S ENERGY IMPORT FROM -

Answer 41

Russia and the
republics of Kazakhstan and
Turkmenistan.

India is the second largest arms
market for Russia