What was Cuban Missile Crisis? Describe its main events.
OR
Explain any three reasons for the disintegration of the USSR.
The reasons:
(i) The Soviet System, however, became very bureaucratic and authoritarian, making life very difficult for its citizens.
(ii) The one- party system represented by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union had tight control over all the Institutions and was unaccountable to the people.
(iii) Russia was only one of the fifteen republics that together constituted the USSR, in reality Russia dominated everything, and people from other regions felt neglected and often suppressed.