INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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communist
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democratic
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The 1991 Soviet coup d’état attempt, also known as the August Coup, was a failed attempt by hardliners of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party to forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet President and General Secretary of the Communist Party at the time.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1917, the Bolshevik Party seized power during the Russian Revolution and in 1922 created the Soviet Union, the world’s first self-declared socialist state.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Communist Party arose in opposition to both capitalism and the socialists of the Second International who had supported their capitalist governments during World War I.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the 20th century, the world’s first constitutionally communist state was in Russia at the end of 1917. In 1922, it joined other former territories of the empire to become the Soviet Union.