Bihar Board Class 12 Arts Political Science · Ch 1: The End of Bipolarity

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Difficulty: 3 easy · 9 medium · 18 hard

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1. Q1. A newly independent country decides to end all food subsidies overnight, sell off its public factories to private owners quickly, and open its markets fully to foreign goods, causing mass unemployment. This situation is most similar to which concept studied in the chapter?

   • A. Non-alignment
   • B. Détente
   • C. Containment policy
   • D. Shock Therapy
   Solution

   This rapid, painful shift from a controlled economy to a free-market economy matches the 'Shock Therapy' followed by Russia and East European states.

2. Q2. After the disintegration of the USSR, Russia, along with some former republics, formed an organisation. It was named the:

   • A. Warsaw Pact
   • B. Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON)
   • C. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
   • D. Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
   Solution

   In 1991 the republics came together to form the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), surprising the Baltic states who were initially left out.

3. Q3. Which one of the following is the 'odd one out' in the context of the Soviet system?

   • A. State control over the economy
   • B. Multi-party democracy
   • C. Dominance of the Communist Party
   • D. Centralised planning
   Solution

   One-party rule by the Communist Party, a state-controlled economy and no private property were features of the Soviet system; a multi-party democracy was not.

4. Q4. Assertion (A): The 'Shock Therapy' in Russia and East Europe caused great economic hardship for the common people. Reason (R): Shock Therapy involved sudden privatisation and the collapse of the old social welfare system. Choose the correct option:

   • A. A is true but R is false
   • B. A is false but R is true
   • C. Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A
   • D. Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
   Solution

   Both statements are true, and the sudden privatisation and removal of subsidies (R) directly explains why ordinary people suffered (A).

5. Q5. Consider the following statements about the disintegration of the Soviet Union: (A) It led to the end of the Cold War confrontation. (B) It resulted in a unipolar world dominated by the USA. (C) It immediately made Russia the world's only superpower. Which of the statements are correct?

   • A. B and C
   • B. A, B and C
   • C. A and C
   • D. A and B
   Solution

   The collapse ended the Cold War and left the USA as the sole superpower in a unipolar world; Russia became the successor state but not the sole superpower.

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