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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 long after Gorbachev's 1989 visit to Berlin did the Berlin wall collapse?
2. What was General Antonovich Volkogonov assigned to write by the hard-liners in 1990?
3. Who was Miss KGB?
4. What did an elderly factory worker write on a banner that angered Gorbachev?
5. How many died in the camps of Kolyma between 1936 and 1953?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Shcharansky's celebration of Hanukkah in Perm-35.
2. Why did the publishers of the Novy Mir not know what to expect when Gorbachev suggested that the Soviet Writers' Union decide whether Solzhenitsyn should be published in the Soviet Union?
3. What did Yuri Savenko, president of the Independent Psychiatric Association, think about the Ministry of Health's cooperation with Kashpirovsky's broadcasts?
4. What did Volkogonov's team reveal in a draft of a history they were writing that appalled the hard-liners?
5. Why did Ilya Zaslavsky hobble to the podium at the Congress the day after Sakharov's death?
6. How did Yeltsin win his first battle inside the "horror house" of the Soviet system?
7. Why did Yakovlev say that rehabilitation was an act of repentance?
8. In 1991, why were the Kremlin hard-liners terrified of the strikes?
9. What did the designer of the Chernobyl reactor say about the nuclear accident?
10. Who was Miss KGB?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Some have said that the under socialism in the Soviet Union everyone was equal, equally poor. Argue that socialism caused the extreme poverty that the Soviet People endured using specific examples from the book to support your opinions.
Essay Topic 2
Gorbachev and the Party had illusions about the future of the Soviet Union. Discuss these illusions and how events shattered Gorbachev's and the Party's illusions.
Essay Topic 3
In 1988, threats against the Jews resurfaced. Using examples from Lenin's Tomb, discuss why there was such an anti-Semitic feeling off and on during the history of the Soviet Union and how events in the empire influenced the renewed hatred for the Jews.
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