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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 happened to the Eveni once they were herded into villages by the Soviets?

2. When did Gorbachev take office?

3. What did Brezhnev want from the Uzbeks?

4. How did Alik the wanderer Remnick met at the Kazan Station, get money?

5. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Stalin gain absolute control over history?

3. Why was Andropov important to Gorbachev?

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

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

6. Why did Natasha Rapoport not emigrate to Israel?

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

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

9. Why did Sakharov become a dissident?

10. Why is Misha Litvinov a reserved person?

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

As the true history of Stalin's era is revealed in 1991, the Russian people must learn to deal with the truth and rise above it or be consumed by the truth. Explain how Colonel Aleksandr Tretetsky and Vladimir Tokaryev deal with the truth and show examples that indicate that they represent the two ways that the Russian people deal with the truth.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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