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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 Marxist economics, what kind of value does the worker create?

2. How do Marx and Engels describe the bourgeoisie?

3. When did Lenin break with the Central Committee in Germany?

4. What did Marx and Engels see as the end of capitalism?

5. Why did Marx break with Proudhon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Marx' engagement with the Workers' Associations by the time Das Kapital was finished?

2. How does Edmund Wilson say Marx thought about Das Kapital?

3. How did the theory of dialectical materialism by Marx and Engels reflect Hegel's influence?

4. What effect did Marx have on Engels?

5. Describe the relationship between Lenin and Trotsky.

6. What defined the views of Marx and Engels on international relationships between nations?

7. How was Engels brought to socialism?

8. How did Marx and Engels describe the stages of economic development?

9. Describe the environment where Engels grew up.

10. What are the ten points addressed in the Communist Manifesto?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the philosophies of two political or economic philosophers of your choice. How are their philosophies similar? How are they different?

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

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?

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