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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 was the period that followed the Tsar's acts known?
2. How did the Tsar's political stance change after the Decembrist rebellion?
3. What did Tolstoy believe was the only way to access truth and reason?
4. What writer supported the Tsar's acts?
5. How did the epoch that followed the Tsar's acts in the wake of the Decembrist Rebellions end?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Russia's cultural situation in the 1830s and 40s?
2. What conspiracy group did the Second of April Committee unveil, and what was the result of the trial?
3. What influence did censors have on Russian intellectuals and literature?
4. Which Russian intellectuals did Pavel Annenkov describe in his memoirs?
5. What problems did Herzen have with Hegelian philosophy?
6. What did Russian students learn in German universities?
7. Name some of the thinkers who influenced Herzen's thinking.
8. What was Herzen's reaction to Hegelian ideology?
9. Whose writings had Russian intellectuals and writers primarily been influenced by?
10. What did Nicholas Stankevich find attractive in Hegel's theories?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How did Berlin's own life and times affect his writing about the writers and activists whose portraits he drew in Russian Thinkers? In what ways might Berlin have been trying to identify ideas that would be useful for him in his own time--after WWII and Viet Nam--in addition to identifying the ideas that motivated the Russian writers, populists, Romantics to try to change Russian culture?
Essay Topic 2
Were literature and philosophy separable from politics in 19th-century Russian literature, or were they simply the meditative and artistic versions of political activity? What was it about the cultural moment of 19th-century Russia that turned philosophy and literature into political questions?
Essay Topic 3
Which two or three writers had the greatest effect on Russian society? Define your argument, and use examples from the text.
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