When Yeltsin's government referred to shock therapy, it meant
a. new educational policies to institute a Western-style curriculum.
b. a sudden switch from a state-run economy to a free-market economy.
c. condemnation of earlier practices of sending dissidents to mental hospitals.
d. making Russia acknowledge the cruelty that existed under the Communist system.
e. the psychological effect of losing the Soviet empire.
b
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