UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2025 · Q7(b) · 20 marks
Discuss critically the salient features of Mikhail Gorbachev’s domestic reforms. 20 Marks
- Chapter
- Disintegration of Soviet Union and the Rise of the Unipolar World
- Topic
- Gorbachev's Reforms: Glasnost and Perestroika
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