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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the people at Spasskaya get their food?
(a) Grow it in their garden plots.
(b) Buy it in Ashkhabad.
(c) Buy it in Vologda.
(d) Grow it on the collective.

2. What did Dinmukhamed Kunayev's wife want her husband to get for her?
(a) A Japanese tea set.
(b) Clothes from Paris.
(c) Furs.
(d) Silk from China.

3. What year did the Bolsheviks size power in Russia?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1912.

4. Where did Stalin study?
(a) Military Collegium.
(b) Scientific Industrial Union.
(c) Historical Archives Institute.
(d) A Russian orthodox seminary.

5. In 1989 when the people were to vote for the new Congress of People's Deputies, who wanted sovereignty?
(a) Moscow.
(b) The Baltic republics.
(c) Siberia.
(d) Magadan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kept the Soviet economy going for awhile?

2. When was Sakharov allowed to return to Moscow?

3. What young socialist from Philadelphia came to the Soviet Union in 1932?

4. Where did Gorbachev grow up?

5. Who did Andropov want to succeed him when he died?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is life in the mines not fit for human beings?

2. What did filmmaker Tofik Shakhverdiyev say it meant in 1988 to be a Stalinist?

3. Why did Natasha Rapoport not emigrate to Israel?

4. Why did Sakharov become a dissident?

5. How did Yakovlev know that the article "I Cannot Forsake Principles" was sanctioned?

6. What was the Doctors' Plot?

7. What was Vremya?

8. How did the revolution from below begin in July of 1989?

9. How did Stalin gain absolute control over history?

10. Who was the most flamboyant mafia figure in the Soviet Union?

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