UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2018 · Q8(c) · 10 marks
Review the policy of Glasnost adopted by Gorbachev.
- Chapter
- Disintegration of Soviet Union and the Rise of the Unipolar World
- Topic
- Gorbachev's Reforms: Glasnost and Perestroika
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