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