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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 was General Antonovich Volkogonov assigned to write by the hard-liners in 1990?
(a) A history of the Bolshevik Revolution.
(b) A biography of Stalin.
(c) A biography of Stalin.
(d) A new official history of the Soviet Union.

2. Where did Yelena Chukovskaya send an article appealing to the government to return Solzhenitsyn's citizenship?
(a) Book Review.
(b) Worker's World.
(c) Writers' Union.
(d) Novy Mir.

3. Where did Stalin have his prison camps?
(a) Sakhalin Island.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Kolyma.
(d) Ukraine.

4. How old was Boris Yeltsin when he had his first encounter with the Communist Party?
(a) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 5.
(d) 18.

5. What were the chiefs of the KGB and Interior Ministry police telling Gorbachev in 1991?
(a) That the workers were planning to storm the Kremlin.
(b) That the workers were armed.
(c) That the workers should receive the concessions they were requesting.
(d) That the workers would shut down the country.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the last prison for political prisoners?

3. In 1991, what do the miners want?

4. By the summer of 1990, how many people were quitting the Communist Party?

5. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the Baltic strategy to achieve independence?

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

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

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

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

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

9. How did Yeltsin's appeal to the people for resistance to the coup get published in Izvestia?

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

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