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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the irony of the churches?

2. An actor sang a hymn about Russia promoting its what?

3. What did they do before the meeting?

4. What is Ryszard's take on the Red Army?

5. What did the Imperium bring into Uzbekistan in the 1960s?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Nationalist movement.

2. What were some of the challenges Ryszard faced when he tried to fly to Nagorno-Karabkah?

3. Where did people work in Vorkuta, and what type of people worked there?

4. Describe the feelings the elite in Moscow had for the Imperium.

5. Describe the Red Army and what Ryszard feels about it.

6. What is the role of the Imperium in Yakutsk?

7. What where the crops in Uzbekistan like?

8. Describe the airport in Syktyvkar.

9. What happened to the churches in Russia?

10. Describe what happened to the region around the Aral Sea between 1970 and 1990.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why were people in the USSR struggling with the concept of identity? What people groups were most affected by the concept of To identity and why?

Essay Topic 2

Loking toward the future, what did the Russian people feel was in store for them according to the author? Address structural changes as well as geographic and cultural changes.

Essay Topic 3

Describe Central Asia and the changes that happened to it during the 1900s. How did the Bolsheviks change Central Asia, and what effect did the Imperium have on the area?

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