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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. When did Lenin break with the Central Committee in Germany?

2. How did the "Communist Manifesto treat education?

3. How did Marx and Engels view their theory of history?

4. In what mental/emotional state did Lenin find the Russian intellectuals at the turn of the century?

5. How does Edmund Wilson describe Marx and Engels' doctrine for intervention in human affairs?

Short Essay Questions

1. What critique did Engels make of classical economics?

2. Describe Ferdinand Lassalle's career.

3. Describe Lenin's relationship with his wife.

4. Where did Marx and Engels apply their theories?

5. How does Edmund Wilson say Marx thought about Das Kapital?

6. Describe the relationship between Lenin and Trotsky.

7. Describe Lenin's meeting with Trotsky.

8. What reforms did the 1905 Soviet institute?

9. How did Marx approach the question of studying capitalism?

10. What was Bakunin's relationship with Marx?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Engels, for one, had a conversion experience that brought him to communism. How did thinkers find communism as a solution to society's problems or questions? Were they converted? What had they believed before? For what questions or problems was communism the answer?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Using Michelet's theory that government is the result of the pressures and forces and works of men, how would you explain our contemporary culture? What pressures and forces and works have created the culture in which we live?

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