INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Boris Yeltsin
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Vladimir Putin
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Detailed explanation-1: -Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian: , IPA: [bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn] ( listen); 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the first president of Russia from 1991 to 1999.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country’s dissolution in 1991.
Detailed explanation-3: -On 12 June 1991, Yeltsin was elected as the first President of the Russian Federation, received 45, 552, 041 votes, representing 57.30 percent of the number who took part in the vote, and well ahead of Nikolai Ryzhkov, who, despite the support of the federal authorities, received only 16.85%.
Detailed explanation-4: -The unsuccessful August 1991 coup against Gorbachev sealed the fate of the Soviet Union. Planned by hard-line Communists, the coup diminished Gorbachev’s power and propelled Yeltsin and the democratic forces to the forefront of Soviet and Russian politics.