Who became General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1985 and began reforms?
ABoris Yeltsin
BLeonid Brezhnev
CNikita Khrushchev
DMikhail Gorbachev
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Mikhail Gorbachev
1. Gorbachev took charge in March 1985.
2. He sought to reform and democratise.
3. He appointed Yeltsin to head the Moscow party.
_Source: NCERT Class 12 Political Science, Contemporary World Politics, Chapter 2, The End of Bipolarity._
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