- 1. When did the Soviet Union officially dissolve?
A) 1991
B) 1993
C) 1989
D) 1996
- 2. What event is often considered the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union?
A) Fall of the Berlin Wall
B) Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
C) Chernobyl disaster
D) Perestroika reforms
- 3. Which Russian city was the scene of an unsuccessful coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991?
A) Kiev
B) Moscow
C) St. Petersburg
D) Vladivostok
- 4. What country was the first to declare independence from the Soviet Union in 1990?
A) Estonia
B) Lithuania
C) Ukraine
D) Latvia
- 5. What term is commonly used to describe the policies of restructuring and openness introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev?
A) Apparatchik
B) Perestroika
C) Kolkhoz
D) Glasnost
- 6. Which Soviet leader was in power during the Chernobyl disaster and perestroika reforms?
A) Leonid Brezhnev
B) Nikita Khrushchev
C) Mikhail Gorbachev
D) Vladimir Lenin
- 7. What was the name of the Russian parliament that played a key role in the events leading to the dissolution of the Soviet Union?
A) State Duma
B) Congress of People's Deputies
C) Presidium
D) Supreme Soviet
- 8. What was the name of the Russian president who succeeded Mikhail Gorbachev following the breakup of the Soviet Union?
A) Vladimir Putin
B) Sergei Lavrov
C) Boris Yeltsin
D) Dmitry Medvedev
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