How did mikhail gorbachev begin to change soviet foreign policy?

He began to work together with Western Countries.

Explanation:

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev new strategies on the domestic front of the Soviet Union included the perestroika (restructuring the economy, increasing political participation and decreasing the power of the Communist Party) and glasnost (the opening of civil society and liberation of the press). These pointed to a western economic and politic structure, no longer related to the traditional communist system. In foreign policy, Gorbachev’s changes were recognized as new thinking: de-ideologization of international relations, leaving ideas about the class struggle to prioritize universal human interests, in a clear shift from the beliefs of the Soviet politics.

the answer is option a.

they remained in rural areas and worked at jobs such as lumbering or farming.