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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. Why did Marx break with Proudhon?

2. What had Russia still not experienced by the end of the 19th century?

3. When did Marx finish the first volume of Das Kapital?

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

5. How did Marx review Proudhon's book on private property?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why, according to Trotsky, did the 1905 Soviet fail?

2. What was Marx' engagement with the Workers' Associations by the time Das Kapital was finished?

3. Why hadn't Marx and Engels thought that Russia would have the revolution they anticipated?

4. Where did Marx and Engels apply their theories?

5. What was Bakunin's relationship with Marx?

6. What critique did Engels make of classical economics?

7. How does dialectical materialism correlate to economic phenomena?

8. What reforms did the 1905 Soviet institute?

9. Describe Ferdinand Lassalle's career.

10. How did Marx ultimately find Engels?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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