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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. Which of the following activities could get a person sent to the punishment camps in TON?

2. In what year was capital punishment abolished in the courts?

3. Which of the following terms did the Gulag soldier use to describe the prisoners who partook in hunger strikes?

4. Which of the following terms was used to describe prisoners just arriving to exile?

5. How long does Solzhenitsyn claim it took before life in Gulag becomes bearable?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were six peasants shot in Tsarskoe Selo, and what was the response from the public?

2. For what offenses could prisoners be sent to the punishment cells?

3. What was Vlasov put on trial for in the last of Russia's open trials?

4. What did Lenin say to Gorky about the intelligentsia of Russia?

5. Why was capital punishment banned in 1920?

6. Who was Palchinsky?

7. What changed about capital punishment after the revolt of 1952 in the Gulag prisons?

8. What happened in the trial of Shakhty?

9. How did the peasants of Kotlas live after a Gulag prison was set up on their land in 1938?

10. How were toilet trips managed when transporting passengers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many prisoners were sent to the Gulag labor camps after being considered counter-revolutionary. First, explain how counter-revolutionary behavior is defined in the text and who was at the forefront of creating those definitions. Next, explain how the work camps struggled to re-educate the prisoners to rid them of their counter-revolutionary tendencies?

Essay Topic 2

When people were sent to a Gulag labor camp, it was particularly difficult for their families. Explain how families tried to cope when one of their members was sent away. Give at least two ways prisoners attempted to stay in contact with their families even during their imprisonment.

Essay Topic 3

Joseph Stalin was, perhaps, the strongest force in keeping the Gulag prison system in effect for as long as it was. First, explain why Stalin created Gulag to begin with and how he fought to keep the camp system running alongside his vision. Next, explain the reaction to Stalin's death in the camps and what changes were made in Gulag following Stalin's passing.

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