InfoTrac Activities
Instructions:
Enter your answers into the boxes below. If you'd like a print-out of your responses, click on the
Submit
button at the bottom of the page, and you will be taken to a printer-friendly page.
If you have been instructed to submit your exercise online, enter both your and your instructor's name and e-mail address, then click the
Email
button at the bottom of the page. Your answers will be e-mailed immediately.
Perestroika
Lessons from the failure of Perestroika.
John Blaney, Mike Gfoeller.
Political Science Quarterly
Fall 1993 v108 n3 p481(16)
1. According to the authors, why would perestroika likely have been implemented eventually, with or without Gorbachev?
2. What were the most important problems and contradictions of the Soviet economic system?
3. What was "Gorbachev’s dilemma"?
4. What was the 500 Days plan? Why did Gorbachev make a mistake by not implementing it?
Student Name:
*
Student Email:
*
Professor Name:
*
Professor Email:
*
*
required