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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 the author, what did Babeuf want for the people?

2. What did La Scienza Nuova describe?

3. What did Michelet write after he had become the Conservator of the French Archives?

4. According to Edmund Wilson, Saint-Simon represented______________.

5. What did Taine study after 1871, when the Commune was established?

Short Essay Questions

1. What opinions were shared by Fourier and Owen?

2. Describe Michelet's methods?

3. Compare Renan and Taine.

4. Describe Owen's background and career.

5. How was Saint-Simon representative of the new breed of intellectual in the 19th-century?

6. What was Renan's view of society?

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

8. What happened to Michelet as a result of his writing?

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

10. What does Edmund Wilson say about communes in America?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the relationship between socialism and communism? Where did communes become an integral part of the vision for Russia?

Essay Topic 2

What was the role of education in the development of the theories that led to the Russian Revolution? Were thinkers taught in schools? In communes? What organizations fostered the growth and spread of communism? Which organizations resisted the spread of the ideology with other ideology?

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate the importance of Hegel's philosophy on the socialist thought that led to the Russian Revolution. What part of Hegel's writing did Russian thinkers find compelling, and which thinkers interpreted his work to make it contribute to the revolution? How much of the Russian Revolution can be laid at Hegel's feet?

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