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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. What group threatened the Jews in Leningrad, Moscow, and Novosibirsk?

3. What kept the Soviet economy going for awhile?

4. Who refused to be interviewed by Remnick during the first session of Congress?

5. When did the return of history begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the salmon catch rot on Sakhalin Island?

2. Why did Natasha Rapoport not emigrate to Israel?

3. Why did Sakharov become a dissident?

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

5. What was the Doctors' Plot?

6. Why was the Communist Party doomed to failure after they lost control of history?

7. What did filmmaker Tofik Shakhverdiyev say it meant in 1988 to be a Stalinist?

8. Who was the most flamboyant mafia figure in the Soviet Union?

9. Why was Andropov important to Gorbachev?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the Soviet Union a common power struggle involved truth and the Party's version of truth. Using examples from Lenin's Tomb, explain why man's struggle against power is also the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Essay Topic 2

In 1988, threats against the Jews resurfaced. Using examples from Lenin's Tomb, discuss why there was such an anti-Semitic feeling off and on during the history of the Soviet Union and how events in the empire influenced the renewed hatred for the Jews.

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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