Dissolution of USSR

GCSE · History · Edexcel · H2A.3 — The end of the Cold War 1970–91: détente and SALT, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979), Reagan and the Strategic Defense Initiative, Gorbachev (glasnost and perestroika), the fall of the Berlin Wall and dissolution of the USSR

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"The most important reason for the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 was Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika." How far do you agree with this statement?

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