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

2. Where did Lenin meet his future wife?

3. What affect did Lassalle have on the relationship between Marx and Engels?

4. How did Marx first hear of Engels?

5. What kind of approach toward the study of economics did Marx take?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Lenin's temperament and methods.

2. What critique did Engels make of classical economics?

3. Describe Lenin's meeting with Trotsky.

4. How did the theory of dialectical materialism by Marx and Engels reflect Hegel's influence?

5. How does dialectical materialism correlate to economic phenomena?

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

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

8. Describe the environment where Engels grew up.

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

10. Describe Lenin's relationship with his wife.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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?

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