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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. How did Dmitri Vasiliyev say Russian children were being turned into alcoholics by the Jews?

2. When did Remnick move to Moscow?

3. What was Pavel's sentence for demonstrating at Red Square in 1968?

4. When did the return of history begin?

5. What did Brezhnev want from the Uzbeks?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did no one believe that a new "epoch of human progress" began in October 1917?

2. What was Vremya?

3. What was the Doctors' Plot?

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

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

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

7. What gnawing uncertainty is the condition of life in the Soviet Union for an empire inhabited by holocaust survivors and the children of survivors?

8. Why is Misha Litvinov a reserved person?

9. What central fact of Gorbachev's early life did he keep to himself until 1990?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the book, Remnick states that "Chernobyl...was a kind of run of the Soviet system, a horrible metaphor for the era that began with the Revolution in 1917 and was now ending." Using examples from the book, explain Chernobyl's metaphor for the Soviet system.

Essay Topic 2

Shekhovtsov, Korniyenkova, and some of Stalin's grandchildren still revere Stalin. Explain the reasons why they still support Stalin and their motives for supporting him.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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