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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Russian Populism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What as Alexander Herzen's employment?
(a) He was a censor in the government.
(b) He was an education minister.
(c) He was a famous playwright.
(d) He was an effective publicist.

2. What was Turgenev's "negative Hegelianism?"
(a) Turgenev rejected materialism as the basis for political developments.
(b) Turgenev saw evolution as an inverse fulfillment of the Hegelian world-spirit.
(c) Turgenev rejected a world soul, but embraced the critique of materialism.
(d) Turgenev saw Hegel's world spirit in the failure of reform movements in Russia.

3. What model did populists see as the basis for reform?
(a) Aristocratic fiefdoms.
(b) European nation-states.
(c) Native-American tribes.
(d) Peasant communes.

4. What does the Russian word "Mir" mean?
(a) Collective of communes.
(b) Freedom.
(c) A political party.
(d) Russian laws.

5. How does Berlin characterize Bakunin's ideas?
(a) Earnest but unoriginal.
(b) Revolutionary and dangerous.
(c) Unique and popular.
(d) Innovative but ineffectual.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two thinkers influenced the Russian populists?

2. What were the Russian Populists opposed to?

3. Whom did Bakunin inspire during his travels?

4. What was Bakunin's relationship with Herzen?

5. How did the Populists differ from Marxists?

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