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Question 1

USSR

Answer 1

UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS

Question 2

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

Answer 2

1917

Question 3

WHAT PACT HELD THE SOVIET BLOC TOGETHER?

Answer 3

WARSAW PACT

Question 4

SOVIET INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN

Answer 4

1979

Question 5

WHEN DID THE COOP BY CP HARDLINERS HAPPEN?

Answer 5

1991

Question 6

GENERAL SECRETARY OF CP OF USSR

Answer 6

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV IN 1985

Question 7

WHEN DID USSR DISBAND?

Answer 7

25 DECEMBER 1991

Question 8

WHO DECLARED DISBANDMENT OF USSR?

Answer 8

UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF YELTSIN BY RUSSIA, UKRAINE AND BELARUS.

Question 9

CIS AND ITS PURPOSE

Answer 9

COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES
TO MEND THE EXCLUSION OF CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS

Question 10

BORIS YELTSIN

Answer 10

HEAD OF CP IN MOSCOW IN 1985
“NATIONAL HERO”

Question 11

1988 IN USSR

Answer 11

INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS IN LUTHIANIA>ESTONIA AND LATVIA

Question 12

OCT 1989 IN USSR

Answer 12

USSR DECLARES WARSAW MEMBERS TO DECIDE THEIR OWN FUTURE

Question 13

FEB 1990 IN USSR

Answer 13

MG CALLS FOR SOVIET PARLIAMENT TO PERMIT MULTIPARTY POLITICS

Question 14

MARCH 1990 IN USSR

Answer 14

LITHUANIA DECLARES INDEPENDENCE

Question 15

JUNE 1990 IN USSR

Answer 15

RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT DECLARES INDEPENDENCE

Question 16

JUNE 1991

Answer 16

YELTSIN, NOT IN CP, BECOMES RUSSIA PRESIDENT

Question 17

AUG 1991

Answer 17

COUP AGAINST MG BY CP

Question 18

SEP 1991

Answer 18

LITHUANIA, ESTONIA AND LATVIA BCOME UN MEMBERS

Question 19

DEC 1991

Answer 19

RUSSIA, BELARUS AND UKRAINE ANNUL 1922 TREATY ON THE CREATION OF USSR

Question 20

25 DEC 1991

Answer 20

MG RESIGNS AS THE PRESIDENT OF USSR

Question 21

WHEN AND HOW DID RUSSIA START REVIVING?

Answer 21

2000
10 YRS AFTER INDEPENDENCE BY EXPORT OF OIL, NATURAL GAS AND MINERALS

Question 22

WHEN DID TAJIKISTAN WAR END?

Answer 22

IN 10 YRS, 2001

Question 23

INDO-RUSSIAN AGREEMENT

Answer 23

INDO-RUSSIAN STRATEGIC AGREEMENT OF 2001

Question 24

WHEN WAS THE BERLIN WALL BUILT?

Answer 24

1961
IN COLD WAR

Question 25

WHAT DID THE BERLIN WALLL SYMBOLIZED?

Answer 25

DIVISION BTW CAPITALISM AND COMMUNIST WORLD

Question 26

2 FEATURES OF BERLIN WALL

Answer 26

STOOD FOR 28 YRS MORE THAN 150 KM LONG

Question 27

WHEN WAS BERLIN WALL BROKEN?

Answer 27

9 NOV 1989

Question 28

POSITIVE FEATURES OF USSR(10)

Answer 28

*COMMUNICATION NETWORK *ENERGY RESOURCES(OIL) *IRON AND STEEL *MACHINERY PRODUCTION *TRANSPORT SECTOR *DOMESTIC CONSUMER INDUSTRY *MINIMUM LIVING STANDARD FOR ALL *SUBSIDIES *NO UNEMPLOYMENT *STATE OWNERSHIP

Question 29

NEG FEATURES OF USSR

Answer 29

*V. BUREAUCRATIC & AUTHORITARIAN *LACK OF DEMOC *REFORMS NEEDED *UNCCOUNTABLE CP HAD TIGHT CONTROL *RUSSIA DOMINATED *OTHERS SUPPRESED & NEGLECTED *IN ARMS RACE W US *LAGGED IN TECH *INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN IN 1979

Question 30

USSR'S SUCCESSOR AND UN SEAT INHERITOR AND OTHER COMMITMENTS

Answer 30

RUSSIA

Question 31

REASONS FOR USSR'S DISINTEGRATION(ABT 10 PTs)

Answer 31

FROM BOOK

Question 32

FOR HOW MANY YRS DID CP RULE IN USSR?

Answer 32

72 YRS

Question 33

WHY DID GORBACHEV LOSE IN ITS ATTEMPT TO BRING REFORMS?

Answer 33

FROM BOOK(3PTs) BCZ OF THE TUG OF WAR THAT DIVIDED PUBLIC OPINION

Question 34

IMMEDIATE AND FINAL CAUSE OF USSR'S DISINTEGRATION

Answer 34

RISE OF NATIONALISM AND DESIRE OF SOVEREIGNITY(RUSSIA, UKRAIN ETC)

Question 35

WHERE DID THE UNEXPECTED NATIONAL DISSATISFACTION ARISE THE MOST IN USSR?

Answer 35

IN PROSPEROUS EUROPEAN PART, IN RUSSIA, BALTIC REPUBLICS, UKRAIN, GEORGIA AND NOT CENTRAL ASIANS

Question 36

CONSEQUENCES OF DISINTEGRATION(3)

Answer 36

*END OF COLD WAR CONRONTATIONS *QUESTION OF POSSIBLE UNIPOLARITY OR MULTIPOLARITY *BIRTH OF NEW COUNTRIES

Question 37

NATO

Answer 37

NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION

Question 38

MEANING OF SHOCK THERAPY

Answer 38

TRANSITION FROM AUTHORITARIAN SOCIALIST SYSTEM TO DEMOC CAPITALIST SYSTEM

Question 39

FEATURES OF SHOCK THERAPY(7)

Answer 39

FROM BOOK

Question 40

CONSEQUENCES OF SHOCK THERAPY(10)

Answer 40

FROM BOOK

Question 41

WHAT WAS THE LARGEST GARAGE SALE IN HISTORY?

Answer 41

VALUABLE INDUSTRIES WERE UNDERVALUED AND SOLD AT THROW AWAY PRICES

Question 42

WHAT HAPPENED TO RUSSIA'S 2NG LARGEST BANK?

Answer 42

INKOMBANK WENT BANKRUPT IN 1998

Question 43

PRESIDENTS OF WHICH COUNTRIES APPOINTED THEMSELVES FOR 10 YRS AND EXTENDED THIER TERM FOR 10 MORE?

Answer 43

TURKMENISTAN AND UZBEKISTAN

Question 44

WHICH COUNTRIES ARE MAJOR OIL AND NATURAL GAS PRODUCERS?

Answer 44

RUSSIA, TURKMENISTAN, UZBEKISTAN, KAZAKHSTAN, AZERBAIJAN.

Question 45

WHICH 2 RUSSIAN REPUBLICS HAD SECESSIONIST MOVEMENTS?

Answer 45

CHECHNYA AND DAGESTAN

Question 46

WHEN DID TAJIKISTAN'S CIVIL WAR END?

Answer 46

IN 2001, IN 10 YRS

Question 47

WHAT RESOURCES DO CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS HAVE?

Answer 47

VAST HYDROCARBON RESOURCES

Question 48

WHAT WAS THE MOST SEVERE CONFLICT IN BALKAN REPUBLICS OF YUGOSLAVIA?

Answer 48

IN 1991, IT SPLIT INTO CROATIA, SLOVENIA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA.

Question 49

OTHER CONFLICTS AND TENSIONS IN POST USSR(4)

Answer 49

*IN AZERBAIJAN'S PROVINCE OF NAGORNO KARABAK, ARMENIANS WANT TO SECEDE AND JOIN ARMENIA *IN GEORGIA, INDEPENDENCE DEMAND BY TWO = CIVIL WAR *MOVEMENTS AGAINST EXISTING REGIMES IN UKRAIN, GEORGIA AND KYRGYSTAN *IN EASTERN EUROPE, CZECHOSLAVAKIA SPLIT INTO CZECHS AND SLOVAKS

Question 50

INDIA AND USSR(4)

Answer 50

FROM BOOK

Question 51

INDIA AND RUSSIA(9)

Answer 51

FROM BOOK