RUS 375 quiz 2
Until 1996, almost 30% of Russian household had access only to ________ television channels.
2
Horoscopes were common in Soviet print media.
False
The chief goal of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms was to abolish socialism, Communist Party rule and, ultimately, to dissolve the Soviet Union.
False
The terms "perestroika" and "glasnost" entered the mainstream of Soviet rhetoric with Mikhail Gorbachev. None of Gorbachev's predecessors or the Soviet Constitution had used these terms prior to 1985.
False
Which Soviet leader introduced the term "new thinking" advocating for "peace and international security as the requirement for Soviet economic advance"? (Evtuhov, Catherine, et al. "The Gorbachev Revolution," pp. 784).
Mikhail Gorbachev
Match the following terms with their appropriate translation / explanation.
Perestroika - restructuring Glasnost - openness Uskorenie - Acceleration
Gorbachev's policy of "democratization" meant...
Reform within the Comunist Party-ruled state
Although Gorbachev generally believed in an economy based on top-down planning (rather than the market and consumer choice), starting in 1988 he took a few cautious moves towards legalizing small urban private businesses. These businesses were called Cooperatives.
True
For most of the Soviet era, alcohol was a tremendous source of revenue for the Soviet state, which exercised a monopoly on alcohol's production and distribution. For example, in 1979 the Soviet state derived a whopping 25.4 billion rubles in indirect taxes from the sale of alcoholic beverages, an amount greater than what was paid in income tax.
True
In the 1920, Vladimir Lenin opined that _________ was "the most important of all arts."
cinema
What was (or were) the primary aim(s) of television in the Soviet society?
education and socialization of the population
Media revelations of state crimes of the past (i.e. Stalinism, GULAGs, etc.) during the era of Mikhail Gorbachev have become known as "retrospective..."
glasnost
Which one of the following shows was unlikely to be shown on Soviet television?
news about murders
Which one of the following groups was most resistant to Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms?
the executive elite and older generations in the Communist Party
