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A) Gudermes B) Vedeno C) Dargo D) Samashki
A) Paratrooper drops only B) Small covert infantry units C) Large columns of 200–300 vehicles D) Naval bombardment
A) Gudermes B) Shatoy C) Grozny D) Argun
A) Shamil Basayev B) Ruslan Gelayev C) Aslan Maskhadov D) Dzhokhar Dudayev
A) Serzhen'-Yurt B) Dargo C) Benoy D) Vedeno
A) Approximately 1,000 B) Approximately 5,000 C) Approximately 2,800 D) Approximately 10,000
A) Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis B) The death of Dudayev C) The fall of Grozny D) The battle of Dargo
A) Anatoliy Romanov B) Boris Yeltsin C) Aslan Maskhadov D) Viktor Chernomyrdin
A) They lacked any organized command structure B) They were composed only of former Soviet officers C) They consisted entirely of foreign mercenaries D) They included child soldiers and females
A) He retired from his command position B) He was captured and held as a prisoner C) He was critically injured and paralyzed in a bomb blast D) He was assassinated by Chechen rebels in a sniper attack
A) Ruslan Gelayev B) Aslan Maskhadov C) Shamil Basayev D) Anatoliy Romanov
A) The main military headquarters B) The presidential palace C) The Grozny hospital D) The regional parliament building
A) Nikita Khrushchev B) Lavrentiy Beria C) Ruslan Khasbulatov D) Boris Yeltsin
A) Economic bankruptcy B) Collaboration with German forces C) Refusal to pay taxes D) Communist insurgency
A) 1991 B) 1957 C) 1994 D) 1944
A) Nikita Khrushchev B) Boris Yeltsin C) Lavrentiy Beria D) Joseph Stalin
A) January 1990 B) February 1994 C) December 1991 D) March 1992
A) Less than 50% B) Exactly 60% C) More than 80% D) Almost 95%
A) 15 February 1994 B) 31 March 1992 C) 1 January 1990 D) 1 December 1991
A) 88 B) 86 C) 80 D) 100
A) Boris Yeltsin B) Mintimer Shaimiev C) Ruslan Khasbulatov D) Khanpasha Nuradilov
A) Annexation by a neighboring state B) Immediate independence C) Greater autonomy within Russia D) Expulsion from the federation
A) Tatarstan B) Siberia C) Ingushetia D) Chechnya
A) Tatar B) Chechen C) Russian D) Ingush
A) 1989–1992 B) 1999–2009 C) 1994–1996 D) 1991–1993
A) Sheikh Mansur B) Aslan Maskhadov C) Dzhokhar Dudayev D) Boris Yeltsin
A) The death of Dzhokhar Dudayev B) The collapse of the Soviet Union C) The capture of Grozny in 1995 D) A second Russian invasion three years after the first peace treaty
A) 14,000 B) 10,000 C) 2,800 D) 5,500
A) Dzhokhar Dudayev B) Imam Shamil C) Sheikh Mansur D) Aslan Maskhadov
A) The Caucasian Pact B) The Moscow Agreement C) Russia–Chechnya Peace Treaty D) Khasavyurt Accord
A) 5,000 to 14,000 B) 10,000 to 15,000 C) 200,000 to 500,000 D) 30,000 to 100,000
A) Dzhokhar Dudayev B) Imam Shamil C) Joseph Stalin D) Boris Yeltsin
A) 1785 B) 1793 C) 1864 D) 1834
A) 1936 B) 1920–21 C) 1922 D) 1917
A) 5,500 B) 10,000 to 15,000 C) 3,000 to 10,000 D) 2,800
A) 2,800 B) 10,000 to 15,000 C) 3,000 to 10,000 D) 5,000 to 14,000
A) Sheikh Mansur B) Imam Shamil C) Boris Yeltsin D) Dzhokhar Dudayev
A) Vitaliy Kutsenko B) Dzhokhar Dudayev C) Pavel Grachev D) Boris Yeltsin
A) 50.1% B) 90.1% C) 72% D) 85.5%
A) 1993 B) 1991 C) 1994 D) 1992
A) Ichkeria B) Ossetia C) Tatarstan D) Ingushetia
A) Declared a state of emergency B) Resigned from office C) Fled to the countryside D) Dissolved the parliament
A) Russian Ministry of Defense B) Supreme Soviet C) NCChP D) FSK
A) Pavel Grachev B) Vitaliy Kutsenko C) Dzhokhar Dudayev D) Boris Yeltsin
A) 80% B) 65% C) 72% D) 90.1%
A) Boris Poliakov B) Eduard Vorobyov C) Vyacheslav Mikhailov D) Boris Gromov
A) Lev Rokhlin B) Eduard Vorobyov C) Boris Gromov D) Boris Poliakov
A) The Battle of Dresden B) The Chechen Civil War C) The invasion of Dagestan D) The Afghan War
A) 800th Infantry Regiment B) 131st 'Maikop' Motor Rifle Brigade C) 5th Russian Tank Brigade D) 131st Airborne Division
A) Boris Yeltsin B) Ibn al-Khattab C) Sergei Kovalev D) Dzhokhar Dudayev
A) Foreign volunteers B) Russian soldiers C) Ethnic Russians D) Ethnic Chechens
A) Mikhail Gorbachev B) Helmut Kohl C) Boris Yeltsin D) Sergei Kovalev
A) Over 1,000 B) Nearly 220 C) At least 28 D) Exactly 500
A) The Khasavyurt Offensive B) The Grozny Liberation C) Operation Jihad D) The Shatoy Ambush
A) Konstantin Pulikovsky B) Alexander Lebed C) Aslan Maskhadov D) Boris Yeltsin
A) 2001 B) 1998 C) 1997 D) 2000
A) Exactly 55 B) Over 500 C) Nearly 220 D) At least 267
A) Zainap Gashaeva B) Alexander Lebed C) Vyacheslav Izmailov D) Khassan Baiev
A) Up to 300 B) Exactly 500 C) Nearly 220 D) At least 174
A) At least 55 civilians were killed. B) Chechen fighters successfully repelled the attack. C) Russian troops were forced to retreat. D) International observers were present to document the incident.
A) Akhmad Kadyrov B) Ruslan Aushev C) Mintimer Shaimiev D) Boris Yeltsin
A) Request international intervention B) Sue them for damages C) Declare war on them D) Join the Chechen rebels
A) Chuvashia B) Ingushetia C) Dagestan D) North Ossetia
A) Two hundred B) Fifty C) Ten D) None
A) Provided aid to Chechen refugees B) Organized paramilitary roadblocks C) Joined the Chechen independence movement D) Signed a peace treaty
A) The Chief Mufti B) A local mayor C) The president D) The Health Minister
A) Permanent military occupation B) Complete withdrawal C) Total annexation of Chechnya D) Establishment of a Russian puppet government
A) Andrew Shumack B) Anna Politkovskaya C) Vyacheslav Izmailov D) Anna Artemyeva
A) The Moscow Times B) Pravda C) Grozny Herald D) Novaya Gazeta
A) 30 October 1996 B) January 1997 C) Summer 1999 D) 12 May 1997
A) Mikhail Gorbachev B) Andrei Kozyrev C) Vladimir Putin D) Boris Yeltsin
A) Soviet-style heaviness B) Western-style negligence C) Imperialist cowardice D) Lack of strategic planning
A) The public was largely unaware of the war B) The public demanded international intervention C) The public shared the West's disdain D) The public broadly supported it
A) Environmental sustainability B) Economic prosperity C) State identity D) Scientific advancement |