UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2013 · Q7(b) · 25 marks
“By the 1980s, the Communist system of the Soviet Union was incapable of maintaining the country's role as a Superpower.” Elucidate.
- Chapter
- Disintegration of Soviet Union and the Rise of the Unipolar World
- Topic
- Collapse of the Soviet Union
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