The correct answer to this question is:
“Individuals were permitted to own businesses and
earn profits.”
Mikhail
Gorbachev was the General
Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. Prior to assuming
his office, a lot of attention went to creating up the nation’s military at the
cost of development within the Soviet Union, which eventually destabilized the economy.
Gorbachev
began reforming the Soviet Union by implementing policies to bring about
individual freedom, bureaucratic transparency, and to motivate economic change.
