2. Who started what was billed as the first independent newspaper in the Soviet Union?
(a) Tretyakov.
(b) Karaulov.
(c) Shatrov.
(d) Karpinsky.

3. In what city did the Party cancel the May Day parade in 1990?
(a) Moscow.
(b) St. Petersburg.
(c) Irkutsk.
(d) Leningrad.

4. Who replaced Ligachev as party ideologist?
(a) Vadim Medvedev.
(b) Dmitri Chegodayev.
(c) Vladimir Dolgikh.
(d) Oleg Falkovich.

5. Who was Miss KGB?
(a) Katya Mayorova.
(b) Regina Bogachova.
(c) Larisa Bogoraz.
(d) Valentina Alisovna.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did poet Varlam Shalamov spend seventeen years in a camp at Kolyma?

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. What Article of the Constitution did Sakharov want Gorbachev to appeal?

4. When were tanks sent to Lithuania? .

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did one of Parkomenko's investigative reports cause a terrific scandal?

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. Who was Edward Lee Howard?

8. What happened when the tanks were sent to Lithuania in January 1991?

9. What was the Baltic strategy to achieve independence?

10. Why during World War II did Aleksandr Yakovlev survive after being wounded?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,051 words
(approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page)

View a FREE sample