Question

The factors that forced Gorbachev to initiate the reforms in the USSR is/are?

Options

• To keep the USSR abreast of information and technological revolutions at par with the West.

• To normalize the relations with that of the West.

• To democratize the Soviet System.

• All the above

Answer 1

All the above

Explanation:

In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was compelled to start reforms in the USSR for the following reasons:

1. To keep the USSR on par with the West in terms of information and technological revolutions.
2. Normalization of relations with the West
3. To democratically transform the Soviet system.
4. To relax the administrative system that exempted ordinary people from the benefits.