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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who succeeded Brezhnev?

2. When Remnick was in Moscow, who was the last survivor of the Doctors' Plot?

3. Where did Tretetsky serve before being assigned to the Military Prosecutor's Office?

4. In 1968, what was Alexander Dubcek's attempt to create "socialism with a human face" called?

5. In English, what is the title of Yerofeyev's book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was a difference between the czarist repressions and the Bolshevik Terror?

2. How did the revolution from below begin in July of 1989?

3. What happened in the 1940s in the woods outside Kalinin?

4. What did Gorbachev do about the letter published March 13 in the Sovetskaya Rossiya?

5. How did Stalin gain absolute control over history?

6. As people learned about the true history of the Stalin era, why were they weary and bored?

7. Why was Andropov important to Gorbachev?

8. How did Yakovlev know that the article "I Cannot Forsake Principles" was sanctioned?

9. Why is Misha Litvinov a reserved person?

10. What was the homeless situation in Moscow in 1988?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The return of history is an important theme in the book. Explain how history was distorted and why the return of history led to a new order in Russia.

Essay Topic 2

When people's convictions are threatened, they either capitulate or stand up and defend their convictions. Using specific examples from the book, compare individuals who abandoned their convictions when threatened to individuals who stood up to attacks on their convictions at great personal risk or cost.

Essay Topic 3

In Lenin's Tomb, Remnick states that the Communist Party apparatus was the world's largest mafia. Using examples from the book, argue that the Soviet Union was or was not the world's largest mafia.

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