A) Gudermes B) Dargo C) Samashki D) Vedeno
A) Large columns of 200–300 vehicles B) Paratrooper drops only C) Small covert infantry units D) Naval bombardment
A) Grozny B) Gudermes C) Argun D) Shatoy
A) Shamil Basayev B) Aslan Maskhadov C) Ruslan Gelayev D) Dzhokhar Dudayev
A) Benoy B) Serzhen'-Yurt C) Dargo D) Vedeno
A) Approximately 1,000 B) Approximately 5,000 C) Approximately 2,800 D) Approximately 10,000
A) The death of Dudayev B) Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis C) The battle of Dargo D) The fall of Grozny
A) Boris Yeltsin B) Viktor Chernomyrdin C) Aslan Maskhadov D) Anatoliy Romanov
A) They included child soldiers and females B) They consisted entirely of foreign mercenaries C) They were composed only of former Soviet officers D) They lacked any organized command structure
A) He was captured and held as a prisoner B) He was assassinated by Chechen rebels in a sniper attack C) He retired from his command position D) He was critically injured and paralyzed in a bomb blast
A) Anatoliy Romanov B) Ruslan Gelayev C) Shamil Basayev D) Aslan Maskhadov
A) The regional parliament building B) The presidential palace C) The Grozny hospital D) The main military headquarters
A) Nikita Khrushchev B) Boris Yeltsin C) Lavrentiy Beria D) Ruslan Khasbulatov
A) Communist insurgency B) Economic bankruptcy C) Collaboration with German forces D) Refusal to pay taxes
A) 1957 B) 1994 C) 1991 D) 1944
A) Nikita Khrushchev B) Lavrentiy Beria C) Boris Yeltsin D) Joseph Stalin
A) February 1994 B) December 1991 C) March 1992 D) January 1990
A) Less than 50% B) More than 80% C) Exactly 60% D) Almost 95%
A) 1 December 1991 B) 1 January 1990 C) 31 March 1992 D) 15 February 1994
A) 86 B) 100 C) 80 D) 88
A) Mintimer Shaimiev B) Khanpasha Nuradilov C) Ruslan Khasbulatov D) Boris Yeltsin
A) Immediate independence B) Greater autonomy within Russia C) Expulsion from the federation D) Annexation by a neighboring state
A) Tatarstan B) Ingushetia C) Siberia D) Chechnya
A) Ingush B) Tatar C) Russian D) Chechen
A) 1991–1993 B) 1994–1996 C) 1989–1992 D) 1999–2009
A) Sheikh Mansur B) Aslan Maskhadov C) Dzhokhar Dudayev D) Boris Yeltsin
A) The death of Dzhokhar Dudayev B) A second Russian invasion three years after the first peace treaty C) The collapse of the Soviet Union D) The capture of Grozny in 1995
A) 10,000 B) 5,500 C) 2,800 D) 14,000
A) Dzhokhar Dudayev B) Aslan Maskhadov C) Sheikh Mansur D) Imam Shamil
A) The Caucasian Pact B) Khasavyurt Accord C) Russia–Chechnya Peace Treaty D) The Moscow Agreement
A) 200,000 to 500,000 B) 5,000 to 14,000 C) 10,000 to 15,000 D) 30,000 to 100,000
A) Dzhokhar Dudayev B) Boris Yeltsin C) Joseph Stalin D) Imam Shamil
A) 1834 B) 1785 C) 1864 D) 1793
A) 1922 B) 1936 C) 1917 D) 1920–21
A) 3,000 to 10,000 B) 2,800 C) 10,000 to 15,000 D) 5,500
A) 3,000 to 10,000 B) 10,000 to 15,000 C) 2,800 D) 5,000 to 14,000
A) Sheikh Mansur B) Boris Yeltsin C) Imam Shamil D) Dzhokhar Dudayev
A) Boris Yeltsin B) Dzhokhar Dudayev C) Pavel Grachev D) Vitaliy Kutsenko
A) 85.5% B) 50.1% C) 90.1% D) 72%
A) 1992 B) 1993 C) 1994 D) 1991
A) Ingushetia B) Tatarstan C) Ichkeria D) Ossetia
A) Fled to the countryside B) Declared a state of emergency C) Resigned from office D) Dissolved the parliament
A) Russian Ministry of Defense B) NCChP C) Supreme Soviet D) FSK
A) Dzhokhar Dudayev B) Boris Yeltsin C) Vitaliy Kutsenko D) Pavel Grachev
A) 72% B) 80% C) 65% D) 90.1%
A) Boris Poliakov B) Eduard Vorobyov C) Vyacheslav Mikhailov D) Boris Gromov
A) Boris Gromov B) Eduard Vorobyov C) Boris Poliakov D) Lev Rokhlin
A) The Afghan War B) The Battle of Dresden C) The invasion of Dagestan D) The Chechen Civil War
A) 800th Infantry Regiment B) 5th Russian Tank Brigade C) 131st Airborne Division D) 131st 'Maikop' Motor Rifle Brigade
A) Boris Yeltsin B) Ibn al-Khattab C) Sergei Kovalev D) Dzhokhar Dudayev
A) Russian soldiers B) Foreign volunteers C) Ethnic Chechens D) Ethnic Russians
A) Helmut Kohl B) Boris Yeltsin C) Mikhail Gorbachev D) Sergei Kovalev
A) Exactly 500 B) Nearly 220 C) At least 28 D) Over 1,000
A) The Shatoy Ambush B) Operation Jihad C) The Grozny Liberation D) The Khasavyurt Offensive
A) Boris Yeltsin B) Alexander Lebed C) Konstantin Pulikovsky D) Aslan Maskhadov
A) 1998 B) 2001 C) 2000 D) 1997
A) Exactly 55 B) Over 500 C) Nearly 220 D) At least 267
A) Vyacheslav Izmailov B) Alexander Lebed C) Zainap Gashaeva D) Khassan Baiev
A) Exactly 500 B) Nearly 220 C) At least 174 D) Up to 300
A) International observers were present to document the incident. B) At least 55 civilians were killed. C) Russian troops were forced to retreat. D) Chechen fighters successfully repelled the attack.
A) Akhmad Kadyrov B) Ruslan Aushev C) Mintimer Shaimiev D) Boris Yeltsin
A) Sue them for damages B) Join the Chechen rebels C) Request international intervention D) Declare war on them
A) Dagestan B) Ingushetia C) Chuvashia D) North Ossetia
A) None B) Ten C) Fifty D) Two hundred
A) Organized paramilitary roadblocks B) Signed a peace treaty C) Joined the Chechen independence movement D) Provided aid to Chechen refugees
A) The Chief Mufti B) A local mayor C) The Health Minister D) The president
A) Establishment of a Russian puppet government B) Total annexation of Chechnya C) Complete withdrawal D) Permanent military occupation
A) Anna Politkovskaya B) Andrew Shumack C) Vyacheslav Izmailov D) Anna Artemyeva
A) Pravda B) Grozny Herald C) Novaya Gazeta D) The Moscow Times
A) 12 May 1997 B) January 1997 C) Summer 1999 D) 30 October 1996
A) Boris Yeltsin B) Andrei Kozyrev C) Mikhail Gorbachev D) Vladimir Putin
A) Imperialist cowardice B) Lack of strategic planning C) Soviet-style heaviness D) Western-style negligence
A) The public shared the West's disdain B) The public broadly supported it C) The public demanded international intervention D) The public was largely unaware of the war
A) Scientific advancement B) State identity C) Environmental sustainability D) Economic prosperity |