UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2022 · Q7(b) · 20 marks
Discuss, how the policies adopted by Mikhail Gorbachev were responsible for the disintegration of the USSR?
- Chapter
- Disintegration of Soviet Union and the Rise of the Unipolar World
- Topic
- Collapse of the Soviet Union
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