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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. According to the author, Michelet's writings demonstrate _____________.

2. What was Marx's passion while he was studying law?

3. Where did Marx learn about the ideas of Saint-Simon?

4. Saint-Simon thought society should be based on ____________.

5. What value does Edmund Wilson attribute to Michelet's work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Michelet write about, and what was the effect of his writing?

2. What was Renan's view of society?

3. How were Owen's communes organized?

4. Describe Taine's career after the Commune was founded in 1871.

5. What was Vico's effect on Michelet?

6. Describe Marx's education and upbringing.

7. What was Michelet's approach to narrating history?

8. Describe Owen's background and career.

9. Describe the evolution of Marx's philosophical thinking.

10. What did Jules Michelet discover in the work of Giavanni Vico?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What external opposition did communists and socialists face? Who were their principal opponents, and what methods were used to oppose them? Why were those methods ultimately unsuccessful in Russia? Why were socialism and communism more successfully resisted in Europe?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the effect of imprisonment and internal exile to Siberia on the thinking of the socialist thinkers who brought about the Russian Revolution. Why were they sent there? What did they learn there?

Essay Topic 3

What internal conflicts did communism have to suppress in order to take its place as the dominant ideology following the Russian Revolution? What splinter groups or secondary ideologies were competing with Lenin's vision?

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