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Content: The Soviet Union faced a serious foreign-policy crisis in which country? Afghanistan
Boris Yeltsin was elected ____ president of the Russian Federation in its open election. Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian Federation in its open election. First
_____, meaning "restructuring," reduced government control and helped the Soviet Union move away from a totalitarian government. ,meaning "restructuring," reduced government control and helped the Soviet Union move away from a totalitarian government. Perestroika
The Soviet Union dissolved. NOT Gorbachev was assassinated. The Commonwealth of Independent States was formed. Former Soviet republics declared their independence. NOT Only Russia, led by Yeltsin, declared its independence.