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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 of the Soviet Union.
- The Independence movement begins in Lithuania; later spreads to Estonia and Latvia.
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- 1988: The independence movement begins in Lithuania and spreads to Estonia and Latvia later on.
- 1989 October: The Soviet Union declares Warsaw Pact members free to choose their own futures; the Berlin Wall falls in November.
- 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.
- 1990 March: Lithuania declares independence as the first of the 15 Soviet republics.
- 1990 June: The Russian legislature declares independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1991 June: Yeltsin, who is no longer a member of the Communist Party, is elected President of Russia.
- 1991 August: Hardliners in the Communist Party staged an abortive coup against Gorbachev.
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