UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2016 · Q8(b) · 20 marks
In what way did the political changes in Soviet Union influence the events in Eastern Europe during the closing decades of the 20th century?
- Chapter
- Disintegration of Soviet Union and the Rise of the Unipolar World
- Topic
- Eastern Europe and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
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