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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. In 1968, what was Alexander Dubcek's attempt to create "socialism with a human face" called?

2. What kept the Soviet economy going for awhile?

3. Where was Gorbachev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?

4. What was the news on August 19, 1991?

5. What happened to some of those who executed the Polish officers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Misha Litvinov a reserved person?

2. Why was the Communist Party doomed to failure after they lost control of history?

3. What was a difference between the czarist repressions and the Bolshevik Terror?

4. What was Magadan like in the late 1930s?

5. Why is life in the mines not fit for human beings?

6. Why did Sakharov become a dissident?

7. Why did Natasha Rapoport not emigrate to Israel?

8. Why was Genrikh Joffe accused of being a "preacher of bourgeois ideology"?

9. What was the Doctors' Plot?

10. Why was Andropov important to Gorbachev?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

During the Gorbachev era, there was loosening of restrictions and a small shift toward truth. Compare the Stalin era and the Gorbachev era, and show what changed, what did not change, and how, in some ways, the Gorbachev era retained elements from Stalin's days. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the double meaning of the book's title, Lenin's Tomb.

Essay Topic 3

In Lenin's Tomb, Remnick states that the Communist Party apparatus was the world's largest mafia. Using examples from the book, argue that the Soviet Union was or was not the world's largest mafia.

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