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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. What name was ultimately given to the line of thought Michelet developed?

2. What did La Scienza Nuova describe?

3. How long did the communist government last in Paris after Michelet had his stroke?

4. Why did Saint-Simon not participate in the French Revolution?

5. What position did Marx take in 1842?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Babeuf's early career.

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

3. What opinions were shared by Fourier and Owen?

4. Explain Michelet's portrayal of society.

5. Describe Marx's education and upbringing.

6. How were Owen's communes organized?

7. Describe Taine's career after the Commune was founded in 1871.

8. What did Jules Michelet discover in the work of Giavanni Vico?

9. How was Saint-Simon representative of the new breed of intellectual in the 19th-century?

10. Describe Owen's background and career.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a review of "To Finland Station." What is the book's accomplishment? What did it set out to do? What were its methods? Did it accomplish its goal? What else could or should "Finland Station" have done?

Essay Topic 2

What was the role of education in the development of the theories that led to the Russian Revolution? Were thinkers taught in schools? In communes? What organizations fostered the growth and spread of communism? Which organizations resisted the spread of the ideology with other ideology?

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think Fourier's communes never progressed, while Owen's did? Was it simply a question of money, or were there other factors? How do you explain the fact that Owen's communes fell apart if he was gone? What do these things tell us about communist theory and practice?

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