Gorbachev's Twin Policies of Openness and Restructuring Were Primarily Intended

Multiple Choice

Gorbachev's twin policies of openness and restructuring were primarily intended to

A) bring a slow but definite breakup of the Soviet Union.
B) disorient the population as the ruling elites regrouped.
C) generate genuine civic cooperation with the Communist government to revitalize the Soviet system.
D) defuse the growing grass-roots discontent in Eastern Europe embodied in Poland's Solidarity movement.
E) revitalize the stagnating economy without changing the Soviet political system.