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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 what project did Marx involve Proudhon?

2. Where did Lenin move after being released from prison?

3. What was Trotsky's role in the early years of the Russian Revolution?

4. Why did Marx break with Proudhon?

5. How did Marx review Proudhon's book on private property?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Marx ultimately find Engels?

2. What reforms did the 1905 Soviet institute?

3. What was Bakunin's relationship with Marx?

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

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

6. Describe Lenin's temperament and methods.

7. How was Engels brought to socialism?

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

9. Describe the environment where Engels grew up.

10. What was Marx' standard for saying that the proletariat and bourgeoisie moralities are opposed to each other?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which of the thinkers which Edmund Wilson describes had the greatest effect on bringing about the Russian Revolution? What metrics would you use to justify such a claim for a particular thinker?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

How do the terms "proletariat" and "bourgeoisie" apply to American society? Do they map neatly to recognizable parties, or are there subcultures that do not fit in this binary? Is class struggle felt in America? If so, how?

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