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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 did Marx first hear of Engels?

2. Where did Lenin move after being released from prison?

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

4. What organization did Lassalle establish?

5. What was Marx's relationship with Engels after the 1850s?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the environment where Engels grew up.

4. Describe Lenin's meeting with Trotsky.

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

6. Describe Ferdinand Lassalle's career.

7. Describe Lenin's relationship with his wife.

8. Describe the relationship between Lenin and Trotsky.

9. What is dialectical materialism?

10. How was Engels brought to socialism?

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

What changes in European and Russian cultures created ripe conditions for the socialist thought that led from Hegel to Michelet and, ultimately, to Lenin? Was it industrialism, or was it economic transition itself?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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