What was Shock Therapy?
Shock Therapy was the transitional form from authoritarian socialist system to a democratic capitalist system in Russia, Central Asia and East Europe under the influence of the World Bank and IMF.
1. What was Soviet system?
2. How many republics formed Soviet Union?
3. Which republic dominated in the USSR?
4. Why did people become dissatisfied with the rule of Communist Party of Soviet Union?
Mention any two possibilities which were being presumed in changed scenario of world politics after disintegration of the USSR.
" The old system of social welfare was systematically destroyed". With reference to Shock Therapy, justify the statement.
Arrange the following in chronological order:
(a) Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
(b) Fall of the Berlin Wall
(c) Disintegration of Soviet Union
(d) Russian Revolution
Why did Gorbachev's reform policy fail in spite of his accurate diagnosis of the problem?
What were the major consequences of the disintegration of the Soviet Union for countries like India?
Write an essay for or against the following proposition. "With the disintegration of the second world, India should change its foreign policy and focus more on friendship with the US rather than with traditional friends like Russia".
Explain six factors which helped Soviet Union becoming superpower after Second World War.
What was Shock Therapy? Was this the best way to make a transition from communism to capitalism?
In what manner Gorbachev's reform policy was protested? Who took the command during these events?
Fill in the blanks:
(a) The Soviet Political System was
based on ideology.
(b) was the military alliance
started by the USSR.
(c) party dominated the
Soviet Union's political system.
(d) initiated the reforms
in the USSR in 1985.
(e) The fall of the symbolised
the end of the Cold War.
"During the Cold War era India and the USSR enjoyed a special relationship which made critics to say that India was part of Soviet camp". Examine the statement.
Or
"India and the USSR enjoyed mutual dimensional relationship."Justify the statement.
In eastern Europe, Czechoslovakia split peacefully into two, with the Czechs and the Slovaks forming independent countries. But the most severe conflict took place in the Balkan republics of Yugoslavia. After 1991, it broke apart with several provinces like Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina declaring independence. Ethnic Serbs opposed this, and a massacre of non-Serb Bosnians followed. The NATO intervention and the bombing of Yugoslavia followed inter ¬ethnic civil war.
1. In Eastern Europe which republic split into two?
2. Name the republic/place where severe conflict took place.
3. Name various provinces with which Yugoslavia had been broken in 1991?
4. Which incidents resulted into inter-ethnic civil war?
On a political map of world locate and label the following by giving symbols to them:
1. A republic of Eastern Europe split into two independent countries peacefully.
2. Most dominating republic of Soviet Union.
3. Identify two major oil and gas producers of Soviet Union.
members of Commonwealth of Independent States.
Mention any three features that distinguish the Soviet economy from that of a capitalist country like the US.
