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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 Herzen and Bakunin express the value they shared?
2. What was the relationship between literature and politics in mid-nineteenth century Russia?
3. Whose novels did the Russian Intelligentsia influence?
4. How did the Tsar's political stance change after the Decembrist rebellion?
5. How does Berlin describe Bakunin's personality?
Short Essay Questions
1. What problems did Herzen have with Hegelian philosophy?
2. Describe the main ideas of Hegel's that influenced Herzen.
3. What example does Tolstoy use to explain why human beings cannot know all the actions and causes that affect their experiences?
4. What influence did censors have on Russian intellectuals and literature?
5. In what ways does Berlin see Tolstoy's experience as representative of Russian culture?
6. Name some of the thinkers who influenced Herzen's thinking.
7. What was Annenkov's role in the circle of Russian Intelligentsia?
8. What did "intelligentsia" mean in Russia, where the term was coined?
9. Describe the difference between Herzen and Bakunin's personalities.
10. What was the effect of the "moral quarantine" of Western ideas in Russia?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Which two or three writers had the greatest effect on Russian society? Define your argument, and use examples from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Why was Russian culture so ripe for revolution and transformation? What traits of inherited Russian culture made it so receptive to external ideas such as Hegel's ideas about history or Rousseau's ideas about the innocence of children?
Essay Topic 3
What are Berlin's main concerns as a biographer? Is he telling the stories of the lives of the writers, or the development of the ideas they lived by? Is he telling individual lives, or facets of the life of a culture? Is Berlin a fox or a hedgehog by temperament?
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