Assignment task:
Read "Ukraine. A History" by Orest Subtelny: Part Five, Twentieth-Century Ukraine:
Chapter 26, starting from "The Gorbachev Era" part, p.p. 534-537.
Chapter 29, The New Era, p.p. 573-595.
Chapter 30, The Troubled Transition, p.p. 597-632.
Chapter 31, The Age of Globalization, p.p. 633-676.
Read "Conflict in Ukraine" by Menon and Rumer: p.p. 12 - 52 (starting from "Revolution From Above..." and ending with "...the Cold War").
Answer the following questions and provide the page number where you found your answers:
Q1. Why couldn't the USSR exist without major changes anymore? Give 4 reasons.
Q2. What changes did "the Rebuilding" (Perestroika) bring to the USSR? Give 4 changes.
Q3. What challenges did Ukraine face between 1991 and 2013? Give 4 challenges.