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

2. What was Engels converted to in Cologne?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Lenin's temperament and methods.

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

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

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

5. Describe Marx's relationship with Proudhon.

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

7. How did Marx ultimately find Engels?

8. How was Engels brought to socialism?

9. What effect did Marx have on Engels?

10. What was Bakunin's relationship with Marx?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the effect of imprisonment and internal exile to Siberia on the thinking of the socialist thinkers who brought about the Russian Revolution. Why were they sent there? What did they learn there?

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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