2. What did Orwell call a KGB type organization?
(a) The Ministry of Truth.
(b) The Ministry of Public Control.
(c) The Ministry of Propaganda.
(d) The Ministry of Love.

3. What did Mikhail Leontyev, who studied economics at Plekhanov Institute, do to avoid working for the regime?
(a) Restored old Russian furniture.
(b) Worked on a collective.
(c) Wrote books.
(d) Became an auto mechanic.

4. What American movie was shown to students at the Moscow Higher Party School?
(a) Wall Street.
(b) The Matrix.
(c) Schindler's List.
(d) Forest Gump.

5. What young politician was elected chairman of the October District in Moscow during the first elections?
(a) German Sterligov.
(b) Vyacheslav Shostokovsky.
(c) Anatoly Sobchak.
(d) Ilya Zaslavsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the plan called that was supposed to dismantle the Soviet system?

2. How long did economist Stanislav Shatalin think it would be before the Soviet Union would have a modern economy?

3. What did an elderly factory worker write on a banner that angered Gorbachev?

4. What was General Antonovich Volkogonov assigned to write by the hard-liners in 1990?

5. How was Russian Orthodox Priest Aleksandr Men murdered?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were three omens that occurred in September 1990?

2. Why did Ilya Zaslavsky hobble to the podium at the Congress the day after Sakharov's death?

3. How did Yeltsin win his first battle inside the "horror house" of the Soviet system?

4. Describe Shcharansky's celebration of Hanukkah in Perm-35.

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

6. What did Yuri Savenko, president of the Independent Psychiatric Association, think about the Ministry of Health's cooperation with Kashpirovsky's broadcasts?

7. In 1991, why were the Kremlin hard-liners terrified of the strikes?

8. What was different about the May Day parade in Moscow in 1990?

9. What was "The Charity Society"?

10. Why, for the young, was the West their dream?

(see the answer keys)

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