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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. In what project did Marx involve Proudhon?

2. Where did Lenin and Trotsky first meet?

3. How does Edmund Wilson describe Ferdinand Lassalle?

4. Where did Trotsky go after he escaped from Russia?

5. How does Edmund Wilson characterize Bakunin's career?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Bakunin's relationship with Marx?

2. What conditions made Russia a good candidate for a transition to communism?

3. How does dialectical materialism correlate to economic phenomena?

4. How was Engels brought to socialism?

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

6. Describe Lenin's meeting with Trotsky.

7. Where did Marx and Engels apply their theories?

8. What critique did Engels make of classical economics?

9. What defined the views of Marx and Engels on international relationships between nations?

10. What was Marx' standard for saying that the proletariat and bourgeoisie moralities are opposed to each other?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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?

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