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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. Where did the term "intelligentsia" come from?
2. How did the Tsar's political stance change after the Decembrist rebellion?
3. How did Herzen and Bakunin express the value they shared?
4. What movement was responsible for bringing politics into literature in mid-nineteenth-century Russian literature?
5. Who wrote the memoir titled "The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia"?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what ways does Berlin see Tolstoy's experience as representative of Russian culture?
2. What was Annenkov's role in the circle of Russian Intelligentsia?
3. Who was Joseph de Maistre and what ideas did Tolstoy share with him?
4. What were the three accomplishments of the intellectuals who rose to prominence in the 1830s and 40s?
5. What was Russia's cultural situation in the 1830s and 40s?
6. What was the effect of the "moral quarantine" of Western ideas in Russia?
7. Name some of the thinkers who influenced Herzen's thinking.
8. How did the revolutions of 1848 affect western European intellectuals and Russians differently?
9. How did Tsar Nicholas respond to the European revolutions of 1848?
10. What conspiracy group did the Second of April Committee unveil, and what was the result of the trial?
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
How accurate is the stereotype of the Russian intellectual as gloomy and pessimistic? Why was that stereotype conceived, and what cultural factors would induce an intellectual to be gloomy and pessimistic? In what cases was the stereotype grossly inaccurate?
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