1. Discuss the policy of “glasnost.” What did it involve and what were the resul

1. Discuss the policy of “glasnost.” What did it involve and what were the results. 2. Discuss the August 1991coup attempt. What were the intentions of the parties and what were the results? These are the two questions that need to be answered. 600 words each. Sources: Sakwa, Richard, Soviet Politics in Perspective, 2nd Ed., New York: Routledge, 1998.
Suny, Ronald Gregor, The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor
States, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.