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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire | Quiz

David Remnick
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire | Quiz

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1)

Where did Gorbachev grow up? (from Chapter 10)

Murmansk.
Irkutsk.
Moscow.
Stavropol.
2)

Who from the United States warned Foreign Minister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh of a military coup? (from Part IV)

Attorney General,Richard L. Thornburgh.
The Secretary of State, James Baker.
Secretary of Defense, Richard Cheney.
The President of the United States, George Bush.
3)

Where was Geidar Aliyev the Party boss for two decades? (from Chapter 12)

Azerbaijan.
Lenigrad.
Kazakhstan.
Ukraine.
4)

What newspaper did Len Karpinsky work for and later edit? (from Chapter 11)

Sovetskaya Rossiya.
Pravda.
Izvetia.
Moscow News.
5)

What young socialist from Philadelphia came to the Soviet Union in 1932? (from Chapter 13)

Thomas Davidson.
George Bernard Shaw.
John Scott.
Robert Eichelberger.
6)

Which Russian author wrote about Sakhalin Island? (from Chapter 16)

Tolstoy.
Chekhov.
Solzhenitsyn.
Pushkin.
7)

How did Yeltsin lose a thumb and forefinger? (from Part IV)

During the war.
He fell on a sword.
He cut himself with a knife.
Playing with a stolen grenade.
8)

At what period in time might the coup have succeeded? (from Part V)

1985.
1986.
1988 or 1989.
1987.
9)

What event in the Ukraine signaled the end of the old Soviet regime? (from Chapter 15)

Metal workers went on strike.
The release of Sakharov.
Fall of the Berlin Wall.
Chernobyl.
10)

Who did Akhmadzhan Adylov say was his ancestor? (from Chapter 12)

Frederick William I.
Constantine.
Tamerlane the Great.
Ghangis Khan.
11)

Who came from Iowa to coach baseball? (from Chapter 22)

David Kauffman.
Alex Pryor.
Richard Spooner.
Bob Protexter.
12)

Who was a video healer who appeared on state television? (from Chapter 17)

Kashpirovsky.
Obolensky.
Rasputin.
Arbatov.
13)

Where did the people at Spasskaya get their food? (from Chapter 13)

Grow it in their garden plots.
Buy it in Vologda.
Grow it on the collective.
Buy it in Ashkhabad.
14)

Who was the television czar who stopped the television stations from broadcasting news about Lithuania? (from Chapter 25)

Leonid Kravchenko.
Raimondas Sestakauskas.
Boris Pugo.
Aleksandr Nevzorov.
15)

What was Karpinsky's job after entering Moscow State University in 1947? (from Chapter 11)

Politician.
Lawyer.
Party leader.
Propaganda man.
16)

In the October Region, what did entreprenueur Sterligov set up as a place where like-minded tycoons could get together and make plans? (from Chapter 21)

Young Millionaires Club.
Entreprenuers Club.
The Brokerage House.
Free Market Club.
17)

When were tanks sent to Lithuania? . (from Chapter 25)

January 1991.
June 1991
April 1991.
December 1990.
18)

How much would foreign television stations have had to pay for a videotape of Sakharov's last days? (from Chapter 19)

$1,000.
$500.
$1,500.
$3,000.
19)

What were the chiefs of the KGB and Interior Ministry police telling Gorbachev in 1991? (from Chapter 27)

That the workers were armed.
That the workers were planning to storm the Kremlin.
That the workers would shut down the country.
That the workers should receive the concessions they were requesting.
20)

What were the leaders and their assistants doing at the Central Committee headquarters for two days after the fall of the coup? (from Part V)

Writing reports in their defense.
Shredding documents.
Boxing up documents.
Burning documents.
21)

Who became president of Czechoslovakia? (from Chapter 15)

Dubcek.
Walesa.
Sakharov.
Vaclav Havel.
22)

What did an elderly factory worker write on a banner that angered Gorbachev? (from Chapter 20)

Total Independence for Lithuania.
Down with the Party.
Independence for the Baltic States.
Time for Freedom.
23)

Who wrote the saga of Rome's decline and fall? (from Chapter 17)

Pope Gregory I.
Aristotle.
Gibbon.
Socrates.
24)

How much was a million Russian rubles worth on the open market in the late 1980s? (from Chapter 21)

$1,000,000.
$10,000.
$25,000.
$100,000.
25)

What did Sakharov love most of all in life, according to Yelena Bonner? (from Chapter 11)

Radio background emanation.
The poem "Requiem."
His wife.
Mussorgsky's music.
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