The communist world began to unravel shortly after _________ became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985.
A) Mikhail Gorbachev
B) Leonid Brezhnev
C) Leon Trotsky
D) Boris Yeltsin
E) Nikita Khrushchev

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Mikhail Gorbachev became the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985, and his policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) are widely seen as significant factors in the eventual dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.

The Communist World Began to Unravel Shortly After _________ Became