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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 was Yakovlev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Mongolia.
(c) Belgium.
(d) Ukraine.

2. When did Remnick move to Moscow?
(a) March 1990.
(b) January 1987.
(c) May, 1988.
(d) January 1988.

3. In 1968, what was Alexander Dubcek's attempt to create "socialism with a human face" called?
(a) Czechoslovakia Freedom.
(b) Prague Spring.
(c) Czech demonstration.
(d) Czech Socialism.

4. Approximately how many prisoners died working on the Moscow-Volga Canal built from 1932 to 1937?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 200,000.

5. When did the return of history begin?
(a) With Gorbachev in 1985.
(b) With Solzhenitsyn in 1974.
(c) With Khruschev in 1956.
(d) With Kukushkin in 1981.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kept the Soviet economy going for awhile?

2. Where was Stalin's hometown?

3. In the 1989 elections, what percent of the 2,250 deputies were Party members?

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

5. Who was Bukharian's wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Genrikh Joffe accused of being a "preacher of bourgeois ideology"?

2. Why did Natasha Rapoport not emigrate to Israel?

3. Who is Lydia Chukovskaya?

4. Why did Shakhnazarov say that Gorbachev, himself, and all the others who surrounded Gorbachev were double-thinkers?

5. In the 1980s, why did Gorbachev say that there should be no more "rose-colored glasses"?

6. What was Vremya?

7. What is the dilemma that Mishal and Flora Litvinov faced with their children?

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

9. Why did the salmon catch rot on Sakhalin Island?

10. Was the corruption in the Party a secret to the Soviet people?

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