2 Points
In the late 1980s, what measures did the Soviet government take to improve
the country's stability?
O
A. It tried to make the government more open to the public, and it
embraced some capitalist policies.
O
B. It decreased military spending so that it could devote more
resources to helping the hungry.
O
C. It lowered taxes for the poor, and it held democratic elections
modeled after the U. S. system.
O
D. It took a more hostile stance to capitalist uprisings in Soviet
satellite nations, such as Bulgaria.

C. It lowered taxes for the poor, and it held democratic elections

modeled after the U.S. system.

Explanation:

The collapse of Soviet Communism led to dislocation of the Soviet Union, sapped by an ideological, political and economic crisis. This in turn precipitated the break-up of the empire, both cause and effect of the end of Communismm.

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991 and was the largest country in the world. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, in practice its government and economy were highly centralized.

To match the military buildup, the Soviet Union increased its own military spending to 27% of its GDP and froze production of civilian goods at 1980 levels, causing a sharp economic decline in the already failing Soviet economy

the conditions that made the byzantine empire vulnerable to attacks by the muslin turks were the sack of constantinople by western crusaders, the conquests of the sultanate of rum, presence of rival kingdoms and finally the set up of fiefdoms at the empire which were owned by the ghazis (turkish warriors).

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