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A) Moscow B) New York City C) Washington, D.C. D) London
A) 10 million B) 1 million C) 6 million D) 2 million
A) 1921 and 1922 B) 1932 and 1933 C) 1917 and 1918 D) 1940 and 1941
A) Russia B) United States C) Ukraine D) France
A) The World War II casualties B) The Russian famine of 1921–1922 C) The Siege of Leningrad D) The Great Purge
A) The Russian military B) The local governors C) The Politburo D) The international community
A) Western historians B) The Bolshevik leadership C) Believers in an anti-Russian form of Ukrainian ultranationalism D) The Soviet government
A) London, England B) Paris, France C) Moscow, Russia D) Worcester, Massachusetts
A) Pyotr Chegodayev B) Bernard Pivot C) Jean Crépu D) Alexander Sokurov
A) Worcester B) Vermont C) Washington, D.C. D) Vladivostok
A) Bernard Pivot B) Jean Crépu C) Nicolas Miletitch D) Alexander Sokurov
A) Malcolm Muggeridge B) Bernard Pivot C) Alexander Sokurov D) Bernard Levin
A) Vologda Diary B) Besedy s Solzhenitsynym C) L'Histoire Secrète D) Taynaya Istoriya 'Arkhipelaga GULAG'
A) 1998 B) 2009 C) 1983 D) 2015
A) Ideological reasons B) Economic bankruptcy C) International sanctions D) Lack of currency
A) 1990 B) 1994 C) 1989 D) 2008
A) Troitse-Lykovo B) Siberia C) Kiev D) Saint Petersburg
A) A parliamentary democracy B) A pure monarchy C) A strong presidential republic D) A communist dictatorship
A) Joseph Stalin B) Konstantin Chernenko C) Mikhail Suslov D) Vladimir Putin
A) Pneumonia B) Old age C) Heart failure D) Cancer
A) 87 B) 90 C) 89 D) 92
A) Red Square B) Saint Petersburg C) Troitse-Lykovo D) Donskoy Monastery
A) Men have forgotten God B) Tsarist corruption C) Economic inequality D) Foreign interference
A) He supported it B) He suggested a compromise C) He opposed it D) He was indifferent
A) The University of Notre Dame B) The Russian Orthodox Church C) The Kremlin D) McKinsey & Company
A) Peter the Great B) Mikhail Suslov C) Patriarch Nikon D) Tsar Alexis
A) 2008 B) 1990 C) 1994 D) 1995
A) 1952 B) 1973 C) 1940 D) 1957
A) 1940 B) 1972 C) 1962 D) 1957
A) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich B) Cancer Ward C) Sanya: My Life with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn D) The Gulag Archipelago
A) None of the above B) Natalia Alekseevna Reshetovskaya C) Matryona D) Natalia Dmitrievna Svetlova
A) Mathematician B) Editor C) Writer D) Teacher
A) Yermolai B) Stepan C) Dmitri Turin D) Ignat
A) Nikita B) Yermolai C) Ivan D) Dmitri
A) 1960 B) 1956 C) 1962 D) 1964
A) During his lunch breaks B) At night C) During the day D) On weekends
A) 1956 B) 1974 C) 1961 D) 1962
A) Ivan Denisovich B) Nikita Khrushchev C) Dmitri Turin D) Aleksandr Tvardovsky
A) 1962 B) 1964 C) 1960 D) 1956
A) Aleksandr Tvardovsky B) The secondary school board C) Stalin D) Nikita Khrushchev
A) The Gulag Archipelago B) Matryona's Home C) Sanya D) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
A) 1963 B) 1960 C) 1962 D) 1964
A) Captain B) Colonel C) General D) Private
A) A sound-ranging battery B) A tank division C) An air squadron D) An infantry platoon
A) Defending a bridge against German tanks B) Sound-ranging two German artillery batteries C) Capturing a high-ranking German officer D) Leading a successful infantry charge
A) 15 August 1945 B) 1 January 1944 C) 12 May 1943 D) 8 July 1944
A) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich B) The Gulag Archipelago C) Love the Revolution! D) Prussian Nights
A) Poland B) East Prussia C) Stalingrad D) Ukraine
A) Fear of their commanders B) Revenge for Nazi atrocities C) Financial gain D) Orders from Joseph Stalin
A) Prussian Nights B) The Captain's War C) The Soviet Soldier D) East Prussian Crimes
A) Austrian B) Russian C) French D) Polish
A) Ilya Ehrenburg B) Maxim Gorky C) Alexei Tolstoy D) Mikhail Sholokhov
A) Insistent thoughts about one's own transgressions B) Studying political theory C) Reading historical accounts D) Forgiveness of enemies
A) Three times B) Once C) Four times D) Twice
A) 1922 B) 1920 C) 1918 D) 1915
A) Capitalist Liberalism B) Existentialism C) Marxism–Leninism D) Russian Orthodox Christianity
A) Canada B) United Kingdom C) France D) West Germany
A) 1998 B) 1990 C) 2000 D) 1994
A) Atheism B) Nihilism C) Eastern Orthodox Christian D) Buddhism
A) 1971 B) 1966 C) 1968 D) 1973
A) London, England B) Vermont, United States C) Paris, France D) Switzerland
A) Cancer Ward B) Matryona's Place C) August 1914 D) In the First Circle
A) Kislovodsk B) Kuban C) Moscow D) Rostov
A) Natural causes B) A hunting accident C) In World War I D) In the Russian Civil War
A) Red Wheel B) The Gulag Archipelago C) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich D) August 1914
A) 1953 B) 1947 C) 1950 D) 1945
A) Nikolai Vitkevich B) Joseph Stalin C) Ion Moraru D) Lev Kopelev
A) Hozyain B) The General C) The Comrade D) Balabos
A) Treason B) Anti-Soviet propaganda C) Espionage D) Desertion
A) Nikolai Vitkevich B) Ivan Denisovich C) Lev Kopelev D) Ion Moraru
A) Birlik B) Ekibastuz C) Tashkent D) Moscow
A) Lubyanka B) Birlik C) Ekibastuz D) Tashkent
A) Pneumonia B) Cancer C) Heart disease D) Tuberculosis
A) The First Circle B) The Trail C) Cancer Ward D) The Love-Girl and the Innocent
A) The third part B) The fourth part C) The first part D) The second part
A) Natalia Reshetovskaya B) Heli Susi C) Tvardovsky D) Elizaveta Voronyanskaya
A) 1970 B) 1969 C) 1974 D) 1965
A) Ten B) Fifty C) Five D) Thirty-five
A) The October Revolution B) The Hungarian Uprising C) The Prague Spring D) The Kengir uprising
A) Arsenic B) Cyanide C) Sarin D) Ricin
A) Arnold Susi B) Heinrich Böll C) Mstislav Rostropovich D) William Odom
A) Yuri Andropov B) Dick Cheney C) William Odom D) Janis Sapiets
A) Paris, France B) London, England C) Zürich, Switzerland D) Rome, Italy
A) 1974 B) 1980 C) 1976 D) 1978
A) The Red Wheel B) Cancer Ward C) Prussian Nights D) Invisible Allies
A) He had returned to the Soviet Union B) They lost funding for the operations C) They concluded his reactionary views were already alienating his American audience D) He had died
A) Vladimir Lenin B) Leo Tolstoy C) Karl Marx D) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A) The Moscow trials B) The October Revolution trial C) The Dreyfus affair D) The Beilis affair
A) Semyon Reznik B) Richard Pipes C) The KGB D) Laura Engelstein
A) The Wall Street Journal B) The Moscow Times C) The Washington Post D) The New York Times
A) The Thermidorians. B) The Jacobin Club. C) The Enlightenment philosophers. D) The Romanov Dynasty.
A) The Russian Civil War. B) The Khrushchev thaw. C) Communism. D) The Spanish Civil War.
A) Henry Kissinger. B) Dmitri Panin. C) Margaret Thatcher. D) Winston Lord.
A) Expanding the Soviet Union to include all of Europe. B) Granting independence to non-Slav republics. C) The total annexation of Spain. D) A global communist revolution.
A) The regime feared peasant uprisings by ethnic Russians. B) Because Russians were inherently anti-Marxist. C) The regime viewed Russian culture as too powerful to control. D) Because Russian culture was seen as pro-Western.
A) John Maynard Keynes B) Karl Marx C) Milton Friedman D) E. F. Schumacher
A) A dangerous ultranationalist B) An inexperienced revolutionary C) A relic of the Soviet era D) A nice young man
A) Cruel B) A necessary humanitarian intervention C) A strictly Russian affair D) A failure of international diplomacy
A) Germany B) Ukraine C) Poland D) Kazakhstan
A) Cultural enrichment B) Western misunderstanding C) Global integration D) Democratic expansion |