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Following is the "TIMELINE OF DISINTEGRATION OF THE SOVIET UNION". Arrange them in chronological order. Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the General Secretary of the Communist Party -

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Following is the "TIMELINE OF DISINTEGRATION OF THE SOVIET UNION".

Arrange them in chronological order.

  1. Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  2. The Independence movement begins in Lithuania; later spreads to Estonia and Latvia.
  3. 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.
  4. Russian parliament declares its independence from the Soviet Union.

Options

  • i, ii, iii, iv

  • iv, iii, ii, i

  • ii, iii, iv, i

  • iii, i, iv, ii

MCQ

Solution

i, ii, iii, iv

Explanation:

  1. 1985 March: Mikhail Gorbachev is elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; appoints Boris Yeltsin as the Communist Party's leader in Moscow; and begins a series of reforms in the Soviet Union.
  2. 1988: The independence movement begins in Lithuania and spreads to Estonia and Latvia later on.
  3. 1989 October: The Soviet Union declares Warsaw Pact members free to choose their own futures; the Berlin Wall falls in November.
  4. 1990 February: By calling on the Soviet parliament (Duma) to allow multiparty politics, Gorbachev deprives the Soviet Communist Party of its 72-year monopoly on power.
  5. 1990 March: Lithuania declares independence as the first of the 15 Soviet republics.
  6. 1990 June: The Russian legislature declares independence from the Soviet Union.
  7. 1991 June: Yeltsin, who is no longer a member of the Communist Party, is elected President of Russia.
  8. 1991 August: Hardliners in the Communist Party staged an abortive coup against Gorbachev.
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