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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. According to Marx, what kind of labor do machines contain?

2. What did Trotsky say would be necessary before Russia could have a socialist revolution?

3. What did Engels see as a sign of the workers' poor working conditions?

4. Where did Friedrich Engels grow up?

5. What was Lassalle's relationship with the communists, according to Edmund Wilson's account?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Lenin's temperament and methods.

2. Where did Marx and Engels apply their theories?

3. What effect did Marx have on Engels?

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

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

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

7. Describe Lenin's meeting with Trotsky.

8. Describe Marx's relationship with Proudhon.

9. How did Marx ultimately find Engels?

10. How does dialectical materialism correlate to economic phenomena?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which thinkers would have been satisfied with the Russian Revolution as the fulfillment of their work? Which thinkers would have been horrified? Explain how three philosophers' work would have been fulfilled or betrayed by the Communist Revolution.

Essay Topic 2

Using Michelet's method of looking at paradoxes in a culture, can you say that there was a moment when the Russian Revolution became inevitable as the choice people would make in response to the paradoxes or contradictions of their times? What forces had been held in paradoxical stability that were now resolved or translated into another relation?

Essay Topic 3

What external opposition did communists and socialists face? Who were their principal opponents, and what methods were used to oppose them? Why were those methods ultimately unsuccessful in Russia? Why were socialism and communism more successfully resisted in Europe?

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