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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 1989, with whose portrait did some older women replace their portraits of Lenin?

2. What book did Solzhenitsyn want Novy Mir to publish first?

3. Who did the people elect as president in June 1991?

4. Where did Yakovlev study abroad?

5. Who did Volkogonov say was probably responsible for the 1934 murder of Leningrad Party chief Sergei Kirov?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Edward Lee Howard?

2. Who was the free man Remnick met on Sakhalin island?

3. What did Sakharov try to tell Gorbachev one evening during the first Congress session?

4. Why during World War II did Aleksandr Yakovlev survive after being wounded?

5. Why did Yakovlev say that rehabilitation was an act of repentance?

6. Describe Shcharansky's celebration of Hanukkah in Perm-35.

7. How did Yeltsin win his first battle inside the "horror house" of the Soviet system?

8. What was different about the May Day parade in Moscow in 1990?

9. What was "The Charity Society"?

10. How did Yeltsin's appeal to the people for resistance to the coup get published in Izvestia?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As the true history of Stalin's era is revealed in 1991, the Russian people must learn to deal with the truth and rise above it or be consumed by the truth. Explain how Colonel Aleksandr Tretetsky and Vladimir Tokaryev deal with the truth and show examples that indicate that they represent the two ways that the Russian people deal with the truth.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

The return of history is an important theme in the book. Explain how history was distorted and why the return of history led to a new order in Russia.

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