2. What made Remnick realize that the threats against the Jews in 1988 were serious?
(a) When his apartment was broken into.
(b) When he found a Y for Yid on his car door.
(c) When the KGB threatened his wife.
(d) When he heard that a cemetery had been vandalized.

3. What was the work site where Colonel Tretetsky and his men worked?
(a) A deserted village.
(b) Mass graves.
(c) A bridge.
(d) An old factory.

4. What textbook did Stalin supervise and have fifty million copies published?
(a) Short Course.
(b) History of the Communist Party.
(c) Determinist History.
(d) Let History Judge.

5. What was the news on August 19, 1991?
(a) That Gorbachev had died.
(b) That there is an uprising in the Ukraine.
(c) That there is an uprising in the Balkan states.
(d) That the State Committee had assumed power.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1974, who was the first man forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union since Trotsky?

2. What was the title of the letter published in the Sovetskaya Rossiya that contradicted everything Gorbachev, Yakovlev, and the liberal intelligentsia had been saying?

3. Why was Tretetsky receiving phone calls all day on August 19, 1991?

4. What did Remnick see when he was talking to an old man whose wife had leukemia?

5. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did no one believe that a new "epoch of human progress" began in October 1917?

3. What gnawing uncertainty is the condition of life in the Soviet Union for an empire inhabited by holocaust survivors and the children of survivors?

4. What was Magadan like in the late 1930s?

5. What was Vremya?

6. How did the revolution from below begin in July of 1989?

7. How did Stalin gain absolute control over history?

8. Why was Andropov important to Gorbachev?

9. Who is Lydia Chukovskaya?

10. What was the homeless situation in Moscow in 1988?

(see the answer keys)

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