Which terms most accurately define Mikhail Gorbachev's plans to restructure the Soviet Union's Communist party to bring about economic and political reform?

(Select all that apply.)

glasnost

veche

perestroika

zemstvo

Answers:

glasnostperestroika

Explanation:

In March 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev proposed policies of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness) in the Soviet Union. These seemed like policies that leaned in the direction of Western ways of economics and politics. Perestroika meant allowing some measure of private enterprise in the Soviet Union. Glasnost meant allowing a bit of freedom in regard to speech and publication. Gorbachev was not trying to end the Soviet communist system. Rather, he was trying to prop it up and preserve it, because it was starting to have many problems sustaining itself. But in the end, opening things up a bit with perestroika and glasnost policies pushed the USSR further in the direction of shedding the communist model under which it had lived for so long.