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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. What did Dinmukhamed Kunayev's wife want her husband to get for her?

2. What was Karpinsky's job after entering Moscow State University in 1947?

3. When did Remnick move to Moscow?

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

5. What was the legacy of collectivization?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Natasha Rapoport not emigrate to Israel?

2. Why was Andropov important to Gorbachev?

3. What is the dilemma that Mishal and Flora Litvinov faced with their children?

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

5. Why is life in the mines not fit for human beings?

6. Why did Shakhnazarov say that Gorbachev, himself, and all the others who surrounded Gorbachev were double-thinkers?

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. How did Mukhamed Valsapar in Turkmenia stir up the Party?

10. Why was Genrikh Joffe accused of being a "preacher of bourgeois ideology"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In 1989, healers were seen on television shows that were broadcast across the Soviet Union. Explain why the people turned to miracles and the supernatural and why the Party allowed and promoted this indulgence.

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

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.

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