View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Article of the Constitution did Sakharov want Gorbachev to appeal?
(a) Article 6.
(b) Article 1.
(c) Article 12.
(d) Article 15.

2. How much was a million Russian rubles worth on the open market in the late 1980s?
(a) $10,000.
(b) $1,000,000.
(c) $25,000.
(d) $100,000.

3. What major event in Soviet history was preserved the longest?
(a) Victory against Nazi Germany.
(b) The history of the collectives.
(c) The Bolshevik Revolution.
(d) The terror of the czars.

4. How long did economist Stanislav Shatalin think it would be before the Soviet Union would have a modern economy?
(a) 25 years.
(b) Generations.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 500 days.

5. What was the name of the last prison for political prisoners?
(a) Perm-35.
(b) Magadan.
(c) Solovetsk Special Camp.
(d) Kolyma.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom did some followers compare Father Aleksandr Men?

2. Who from the United States warned Foreign Minister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh of a military coup?

3. What event in the Ukraine signaled the end of the old Soviet regime?

4. What baseball player was the hero of Vadim Kilakov, the Spooner's catcher at Mendeleyev?

5. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Volkogonov's team reveal in a draft of a history they were writing that appalled the hard-liners?

2. Why did Yakovlev say that rehabilitation was an act of repentance?

3. What was "The Charity Society"?

4. Who was the free man Remnick met on Sakhalin island?

5. Why would it be difficult for the hard-liners to chart a new historical orthodoxy?

6. Who was Miss KGB?

7. Why did the publishers of the Novy Mir not know what to expect when Gorbachev suggested that the Soviet Writers' Union decide whether Solzhenitsyn should be published in the Soviet Union?

8. After watching the film "Wall Street" at the Moscow Higher Party School, how did Remnick know that Communist ideology was dead?

9. When did healers, mystics, and "holy fools" usually come to prominence?

10. Why would the Sinegorsk mine on Sakhalin Island never be profitable in a normal economy?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,136 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample