Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire Test | Final Test - Medium

David Remnick
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire Test | Final Test - Medium

David Remnick
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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. In the October Region, what did entreprenueur Sterligov set up as a place where like-minded tycoons could get together and make plans?
(a) Entreprenuers Club.
(b) The Brokerage House.
(c) Free Market Club.
(d) Young Millionaires Club.

2. How was Russian Orthodox Priest Aleksandr Men murdered?
(a) With an axe.
(b) Mugged, beaten, and left for dead.
(c) Shot in the back.
(d) Pushed off a train.

3. Who was the Soviet who supposedly collaborated with Christine Keller to bring down Profumo, Britain's minister of war?
(a) Nikolai Yakovlev.
(b) Andrei Nuikin.
(c) Grigori Vasiliyev.
(d) Yevgeny Ivanov.

4. Why was the Party so against the publication of Solzhenitsyn's books and his return to the Soviet Union?
(a) He attacked Khrushchev.
(b) He attacked Lenin.
(c) He attacked Stalin.
(d) He attacked Brezhnev.

5. For what amount of time was the May Day parade in Moscow calm and uneventful?
(a) 30 minutes.
(b) An hour.
(c) 10 minutes.
(d) Two hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1989, with whose portrait did some older women replace their portraits of Lenin?

2. Where did Yakovlev go after an article of his irritated Brezhnev?

3. Which Russian author wrote about Sakhalin Island?

4. What did Orwell call a KGB type organization?

5. Who wrote the saga of Rome's decline and fall?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Volkogonov's team reveal in a draft of a history they were writing that appalled the hard-liners?

2. Who was Miss KGB?

3. What was different about the May Day parade in Moscow in 1990?

4. What was "The Charity Society"?

5. What was the Baltic strategy to achieve independence?

6. How did one of Parkomenko's investigative reports cause a terrific scandal?

7. What did Yuri Savenko, president of the Independent Psychiatric Association, think about the Ministry of Health's cooperation with Kashpirovsky's broadcasts?

8. What happened when Gorbachev withdrew his support for the 500 Days plan?

9. After watching the film "Wall Street" at the Moscow Higher Party School, how did Remnick know that Communist ideology was dead?

10. What did Sakharov try to tell Gorbachev one evening during the first Congress session?

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