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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 Yeltsin lose a thumb and forefinger?
2. Who was the healer on the program "120 Minutes"?
3. For what amount of time was the May Day parade in Moscow calm and uneventful?
4. What was the radical opposition faction called that Sakharov, Yeltsin, and Popov put together in the legislature?
5. In August 1991, where was Gorbachev when the coup started?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the Baltic strategy to achieve independence?
2. Describe Shcharansky's celebration of Hanukkah in Perm-35.
3. Why did the publishers of the Novy Mir not know what to expect when Gorbachev suggested that the Soviet Writers' Union decide whether Solzhenitsyn should be published in the Soviet Union?
4. Why during World War II did Aleksandr Yakovlev survive after being wounded?
5. In 1991, why were the Kremlin hard-liners terrified of the strikes?
6. When did healers, mystics, and "holy fools" usually come to prominence?
7. What happened to General Matvei Shaposhnikov when he refused to fire on unarmed mine workers in Novocherkassk in 1962?
8. What was different about the May Day parade in Moscow in 1990?
9. How did Yeltsin win his first battle inside the "horror house" of the Soviet system?
10. What did Volkogonov's team reveal in a draft of a history they were writing that appalled the hard-liners?
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
Some have said that the under socialism in the Soviet Union everyone was equal, equally poor. Argue that socialism caused the extreme poverty that the Soviet People endured using specific examples from the book to support your opinions.
Essay Topic 3
The hard-liners began a coup in August 1991. Explain how and why the actions of the conspirators, the military, the secret police, the people, the media (television, radio, and press), and the reform politicians caused the coup to fail.
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