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A) London B) Moscow C) Washington, D.C. D) New York City
A) 6 million B) 10 million C) 1 million D) 2 million
A) 1921 and 1922 B) 1932 and 1933 C) 1917 and 1918 D) 1940 and 1941
A) France B) Russia C) United States D) Ukraine
A) The World War II casualties B) The Russian famine of 1921–1922 C) The Siege of Leningrad D) The Great Purge
A) The Politburo B) The Russian military C) The international community D) The local governors
A) Western historians B) The Bolshevik leadership C) Believers in an anti-Russian form of Ukrainian ultranationalism D) The Soviet government
A) Moscow, Russia B) London, England C) Paris, France D) Worcester, Massachusetts
A) Bernard Pivot B) Jean Crépu C) Pyotr Chegodayev D) Alexander Sokurov
A) Vermont B) Worcester C) Vladivostok D) Washington, D.C.
A) Bernard Pivot B) Jean Crépu C) Alexander Sokurov D) Nicolas Miletitch
A) Bernard Levin B) Bernard Pivot C) Malcolm Muggeridge D) Alexander Sokurov
A) Besedy s Solzhenitsynym B) L'Histoire Secrète C) Taynaya Istoriya 'Arkhipelaga GULAG' D) Vologda Diary
A) 2015 B) 1983 C) 2009 D) 1998
A) International sanctions B) Lack of currency C) Ideological reasons D) Economic bankruptcy
A) 2008 B) 1989 C) 1994 D) 1990
A) Troitse-Lykovo B) Saint Petersburg C) Siberia D) Kiev
A) A pure monarchy B) A strong presidential republic C) A parliamentary democracy D) A communist dictatorship
A) Mikhail Suslov B) Vladimir Putin C) Konstantin Chernenko D) Joseph Stalin
A) Pneumonia B) Cancer C) Heart failure D) Old age
A) 92 B) 89 C) 87 D) 90
A) Troitse-Lykovo B) Red Square C) Saint Petersburg D) Donskoy Monastery
A) Foreign interference B) Economic inequality C) Tsarist corruption D) Men have forgotten God
A) He opposed it B) He was indifferent C) He supported it D) He suggested a compromise
A) The Kremlin B) The Russian Orthodox Church C) McKinsey & Company D) The University of Notre Dame
A) Tsar Alexis B) Peter the Great C) Patriarch Nikon D) Mikhail Suslov
A) 1995 B) 1994 C) 1990 D) 2008
A) 1957 B) 1973 C) 1952 D) 1940
A) 1957 B) 1940 C) 1962 D) 1972
A) Sanya: My Life with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn B) Cancer Ward C) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich D) The Gulag Archipelago
A) None of the above B) Matryona C) Natalia Dmitrievna Svetlova D) Natalia Alekseevna Reshetovskaya
A) Mathematician B) Teacher C) Writer D) Editor
A) Stepan B) Ignat C) Yermolai D) Dmitri Turin
A) Dmitri B) Ivan C) Yermolai D) Nikita
A) 1956 B) 1962 C) 1960 D) 1964
A) On weekends B) During the day C) At night D) During his lunch breaks
A) 1956 B) 1962 C) 1961 D) 1974
A) Aleksandr Tvardovsky B) Nikita Khrushchev C) Ivan Denisovich D) Dmitri Turin
A) 1956 B) 1962 C) 1960 D) 1964
A) The secondary school board B) Stalin C) Aleksandr Tvardovsky D) Nikita Khrushchev
A) The Gulag Archipelago B) Matryona's Home C) Sanya D) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
A) 1960 B) 1962 C) 1963 D) 1964
A) General B) Captain C) Colonel D) Private
A) A sound-ranging battery B) A tank division C) An infantry platoon D) An air squadron
A) Capturing a high-ranking German officer B) Defending a bridge against German tanks C) Sound-ranging two German artillery batteries D) Leading a successful infantry charge
A) 1 January 1944 B) 12 May 1943 C) 8 July 1944 D) 15 August 1945
A) Love the Revolution! B) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich C) The Gulag Archipelago D) Prussian Nights
A) Ukraine B) East Prussia C) Stalingrad D) Poland
A) Revenge for Nazi atrocities B) Orders from Joseph Stalin C) Financial gain D) Fear of their commanders
A) Prussian Nights B) East Prussian Crimes C) The Soviet Soldier D) The Captain's War
A) Polish B) French C) Russian D) Austrian
A) Mikhail Sholokhov B) Maxim Gorky C) Ilya Ehrenburg D) Alexei Tolstoy
A) Insistent thoughts about one's own transgressions B) Reading historical accounts C) Studying political theory D) Forgiveness of enemies
A) Once B) Three times C) Four times D) Twice
A) 1918 B) 1915 C) 1920 D) 1922
A) Existentialism B) Marxism–Leninism C) Russian Orthodox Christianity D) Capitalist Liberalism
A) West Germany B) Canada C) United Kingdom D) France
A) 1998 B) 1990 C) 2000 D) 1994
A) Eastern Orthodox Christian B) Buddhism C) Nihilism D) Atheism
A) 1968 B) 1971 C) 1973 D) 1966
A) Switzerland B) London, England C) Paris, France D) Vermont, United States
A) August 1914 B) Cancer Ward C) Matryona's Place D) In the First Circle
A) Rostov B) Kuban C) Kislovodsk D) Moscow
A) In the Russian Civil War B) Natural causes C) In World War I D) A hunting accident
A) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich B) The Gulag Archipelago C) Red Wheel D) August 1914
A) 1945 B) 1947 C) 1953 D) 1950
A) Ion Moraru B) Joseph Stalin C) Nikolai Vitkevich D) Lev Kopelev
A) Balabos B) The General C) Hozyain D) The Comrade
A) Espionage B) Anti-Soviet propaganda C) Treason D) Desertion
A) Nikolai Vitkevich B) Lev Kopelev C) Ivan Denisovich D) Ion Moraru
A) Ekibastuz B) Tashkent C) Birlik D) Moscow
A) Birlik B) Lubyanka C) Tashkent D) Ekibastuz
A) Pneumonia B) Cancer C) Tuberculosis D) Heart disease
A) The First Circle B) The Trail C) The Love-Girl and the Innocent D) Cancer Ward
A) The second part B) The first part C) The third part D) The fourth part
A) Elizaveta Voronyanskaya B) Heli Susi C) Tvardovsky D) Natalia Reshetovskaya
A) 1974 B) 1969 C) 1970 D) 1965
A) Fifty B) Five C) Ten D) Thirty-five
A) The Prague Spring B) The Kengir uprising C) The Hungarian Uprising D) The October Revolution
A) Ricin B) Cyanide C) Arsenic D) Sarin
A) Mstislav Rostropovich B) Arnold Susi C) William Odom D) Heinrich Böll
A) William Odom B) Yuri Andropov C) Janis Sapiets D) Dick Cheney
A) Paris, France B) Zürich, Switzerland C) London, England D) Rome, Italy
A) 1976 B) 1978 C) 1974 D) 1980
A) Cancer Ward B) The Red Wheel C) Invisible Allies D) Prussian Nights
A) They concluded his reactionary views were already alienating his American audience B) He had died C) He had returned to the Soviet Union D) They lost funding for the operations
A) Fyodor Dostoyevsky B) Vladimir Lenin C) Leo Tolstoy D) Karl Marx
A) The Moscow trials B) The Beilis affair C) The October Revolution trial D) The Dreyfus affair
A) The KGB B) Laura Engelstein C) Richard Pipes D) Semyon Reznik
A) The Moscow Times B) The Wall Street Journal C) The New York Times D) The Washington Post
A) The Jacobin Club. B) The Enlightenment philosophers. C) The Thermidorians. D) The Romanov Dynasty.
A) Communism. B) The Khrushchev thaw. C) The Spanish Civil War. D) The Russian Civil War.
A) Margaret Thatcher. B) Henry Kissinger. C) Winston Lord. D) Dmitri Panin.
A) The total annexation of Spain. B) Expanding the Soviet Union to include all of Europe. C) Granting independence to non-Slav republics. D) A global communist revolution.
A) The regime feared peasant uprisings by ethnic Russians. B) Because Russian culture was seen as pro-Western. C) Because Russians were inherently anti-Marxist. D) The regime viewed Russian culture as too powerful to control.
A) E. F. Schumacher B) John Maynard Keynes C) Karl Marx D) Milton Friedman
A) A relic of the Soviet era B) A nice young man C) An inexperienced revolutionary D) A dangerous ultranationalist
A) Cruel B) A failure of international diplomacy C) A strictly Russian affair D) A necessary humanitarian intervention
A) Kazakhstan B) Ukraine C) Germany D) Poland
A) Cultural enrichment B) Democratic expansion C) Global integration D) Western misunderstanding |