12. The contemporary world

1.        Why was there popular discontent in Eastern Europe in the seventies and eighties?

2.        Why was USSR living a economic stagnation in the seventies and eighties?

3.        What were the effects of stagnation?

4.        What happened in the USSR in 1985?

5.         What was the perestroika?

6.        What was the glasnost?

7.        Explain Gorbachev’s political reform?

8.        Explain Gorbachev’s economic reform?

9.        Why did Communist European dictatorships lose Soviet support?

10.    What were the effects of it?

11.    What events that happened in 1989 brought about the collapse of the Eastern Bloc?

12.    When was Germany resurrected?

13.    Name the present day countries that made up Yugoslavia.

14.    When was the civil war in Yugoslavia?

15.    When did Czechoslovakia separate in two states peacefully? Name them.

16.    How did the Russian president Boris Yeltsin transform a centralized economic planning in a capitalist economy?

17.    What were its consequences in the nineties? Name them.

18.    Explain the present day Russian social inequalities.

19.    Who are the oligarchs? Use the book and other information sources.

20.    What years was Yeltsin president of Russian Federation?

21.    What Communist states exist today?

22.    Explain the Capitalist reforms in Communist regimes in the last two decades?

23.    Why is North Korean regime so weird?

24.    Why the Communist Party still rule China?

25.    Explain the capitalist reforms in China.