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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. Michelet said that the bourgeoisie __________________.

2. What were Michelet's other books like after his History of France?

3. What did Michelet study in history?

4. According to Edmund Wilson, Saint-Simon represented______________.

5. What did Fourier and Owen believe about the role of government?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Michelet's later career like?

2. In what way did Taine distinguish between history and science?

3. Describe Michelet's methods?

4. What does Edmund Wilson describe as the result of the French Revolution?

5. What work did Michelet do after he had read Vico, and how did Vico's influence come through in that work?

6. Describe Michelet's politics.

7. What was Michelet's approach to narrating history?

8. Why did Marx leave Germany?

9. What was Renan's view of society?

10. Describe Owen's background and career.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using Michelet's method of looking at paradoxes in a culture, can you say that there was a moment when the Russian Revolution became inevitable as the choice people would make in response to the paradoxes or contradictions of their times? What forces had been held in paradoxical stability that were now resolved or translated into another relation?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the effect of imprisonment and internal exile to Siberia on the thinking of the socialist thinkers who brought about the Russian Revolution. Why were they sent there? What did they learn there?

Essay Topic 3

What changes in European and Russian cultures created ripe conditions for the socialist thought that led from Hegel to Michelet and, ultimately, to Lenin? Was it industrialism, or was it economic transition itself?

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