Praxis II Early Education Content Knowledge

Answer: B - Perestroika was believed to be the cause of the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the late 20^th Century. Perestroika is the Russian word for “restructuring.” The Soviet political and economic system had been struggling and Mikhail Gorbachev had used the term along with glasnost, or “openness”. to describe his goal of ending corruption in the communist party and easing tension with the United States, ending the Cold War.