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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. How do Marx and Engels describe the bourgeoisie?

2. Where did the "dialectic" in dialectic materialism come from?

3. What made Marx and Engels pioneers in their field?

4. How does Edmund Wilson describe Ferdinand Lassalle?

5. Marx began to work with Proudhon, who had written _____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the environment where Engels grew up.

2. What work did Engels have to finish after Marx died?

3. Describe Marx's relationship with Proudhon.

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

5. Describe Lenin's meeting with Trotsky.

6. How did Marx and Engels describe the stages of economic development?

7. What is dialectical materialism?

8. What reforms did the 1905 Soviet institute?

9. Describe the relationship between Lenin and Trotsky.

10. Where did Marx and Engels apply their theories?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What internal conflicts did communism have to suppress in order to take its place as the dominant ideology following the Russian Revolution? What splinter groups or secondary ideologies were competing with Lenin's vision?

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

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?

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