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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 did Michelet focus on in his histories?

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

3. When was Jules Michelet teaching?

4. To what does Edmund Wilson attribute the need for political action in the early/mid 1800s?

5. According to the author, what was the result of the French Revolution?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Edmund Wilson say about communes in America?

3. What happened to Michelet as a result of his writing?

4. Describe Marx's education and upbringing.

5. What was Michelet's later career like?

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

7. What reforms did Saint-Simon want to institute?

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

9. How were Owen's communes organized?

10. Describe Marx's time as the editor of a Cologne newspaper.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What is the relationship between socialism and communism? Where did communes become an integral part of the vision for Russia?

Essay Topic 3

Which of the thinkers which Edmund Wilson describes had the greatest effect on bringing about the Russian Revolution? What metrics would you use to justify such a claim for a particular thinker?

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