Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Contemporary World Politics: End of Bi-Polarity

Question:

Who among the following become the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985?

Options:

Joseph Stalin

Mikhail Gorbachev

Vladimir Lenin

Nikita Khruschev

Correct Answer:

Mikhail Gorbachev

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (2) → Mikhail Gorbachev

1985 March: Mikhail Gorbachev elected as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; appoints Boris Yeltsin as the head of the Communist Party in Moscow; initiates a series of reforms in the Soviet Union