Which statement best describes the role of boris yeltsin in the breakup of the soviet union?
a)
yeltsin led russian ship workers in a strike against soviet domination in the early 1980s.
b)
yeltsin was the head of the kgb, the secret police force that the communists used to silence opponents.
c)
yeltsin led the russian congress that declared russian sovereignty over its own territory in june 1990.
d)
yeltsin led the aborted “august coup” that tried to restore communist control over the republics august 1991.

The correct answer is C) Yeltsin led the Russian Congress that declared Russian sovereignty over its own territory in June 1990.

The statement that BEST describes the role of Boris Yeltsin in the breakup of the Soviet Union is "Yeltsin led the Russian Congress that declared Russian sovereignty over its own territory in June 1990.

After Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin became President of Russia in 1991. The Soviet Union was dissolved in December 1991. Yeltsin had dissolved the Communist Party in August of the same year after denouncing a coup against Gorbachev. That is when the 15 soviet Republics started to declare its independence. That represented the end of the Soviet Union.

the exact role and status of women in the roman world, and indeed in most ancient societies, has often been obscured by the biases of both ancient male writers and 19-20th century ce male scholars, a situation only relatively recently redressed by modern scholarship which has sought to more objectively assess women's status, rights, duties, representation in the arts, and daily lives; and all this from almost exclusively male source material dealing with a male-dominated roman world.

women in mythology

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