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

2. During what years had Lithuania been a free country?
(a) 1898-1935.
(b) 1918 to 1940.
(c) 1840-1858.
(d) 1920-1932.

3. Who wrote "How Can We Revitalize Russia" published September 18, 1990, in "Komsomolskaya Pravda"?
(a) Herzen.
(b) Sokolov.
(c) Solzhenitsyn.
(d) Dostoevsky.

4. Where did Men teach courses on religion?
(a) A large church in Moscow.
(b) Moscow State University.
(c) His local church.
(d) Historical Archives Institute.

5. Why did the workers strike at Novocherkassk in June 1962?
(a) They wanted better working conditions.
(b) They wanted soap.
(c) They wanted better hours.
(d) The prices of food went up and their wages went down.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the radical opposition faction called that Sakharov, Yeltsin, and Popov put together in the legislature?

2. In the October Region, what did entreprenueur Sterligov set up as a place where like-minded tycoons could get together and make plans?

3. Why was the Party so against the publication of Solzhenitsyn's books and his return to the Soviet Union?

4. What young Party leader in Southern Russia did Yakovlev help protect in the 1970s?

5. Why was Vitaly Goldovitch, a physicist who had worked in defense research, in a labor camp in the 1980s?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was "The Charity Society"?

4. What happened when Gorbachev withdrew his support for the 500 Days plan?

5. Who was Miss KGB?

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

7. What did Sakharov try to tell Gorbachev one evening during the first Congress session?

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

9. What did the designer of the Chernobyl reactor say about the nuclear accident?

10. What happened to General Matvei Shaposhnikov when he refused to fire on unarmed mine workers in Novocherkassk in 1962?

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