Mass killings under communist states - Quiz
A) 5 million to 60 million B) 10 million to 148 million C) 50 million to 100 million D) 20 million to 200 million
A) Definitions and ideological bias B) Lack of historical interest C) Inaccurate census reporting D) Governmental secrecy only
A) Refuting the existence of communism B) Establishing absolute precision for every victim C) Solely investigating the Khmer Rouge D) Testing theoretical explanations and patterns
A) It lacks an adequate explanation B) It is too broad for modern historians C) The regimes were too similar to be grouped D) It excludes too many African nations
A) Steven Rosefielde and Julia Strauss B) Stéphane Courtois and Martin Malia C) Michael Ellman and J. Arch Getty D) Rudolph Rummel and Zbigniew Brzezinski
A) The Black Book of Communism B) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn C) Mao: The Unknown Story D) Death by Government
A) 148 million B) 94 million C) 21 million D) Almost 60 million
A) He felt it was an accidental event B) He did not consider starvation as killing C) He believed Mao was misled and eventually stopped the famine D) He lacked access to Chinese archives
A) Red Holocaust B) Death by Government C) Mao: The Unknown Story D) The Black Book of Communism
A) As being too soft on communist crimes B) As failing to account for forced labor C) As an overestimation based on low-quality sources D) As ignoring historical archive materials
A) Stephen Kotkin B) Nicolas Werth and Jean-Louis Margolin C) Michael David-Fox D) Klas-Göran Karlsson
A) He relied solely on archive data from the Soviet Union B) He successfully separated Nazism from communism C) He accurately identified the economic causes of death D) He linked disparate regimes under a 'generic communism' category
A) 90 million to 100 million B) 10 million to 30 million C) 21 million to 70 million D) 60 million to 148 million
A) 2 million to 3 million B) 6.7 million to 15.5 million C) 20 million to 60 million D) 100 million to 110 million
A) China B) Hungary C) Soviet Union D) Cambodia
A) Spontaneous civil uprisings B) Direct combat in international wars C) Starvation from cruel social engineering projects D) Natural disasters
A) Democide B) Red holocaust C) Politicide D) Classicide
A) Red holocaust B) Classicide C) Politicide D) Democide
A) Michael Mann B) Benjamin Valentino C) Rudolph Rummel D) Barbara Harff
A) The Cultural Revolution B) The Povolzhye famine C) The Great Purge D) The Arduous March
A) Stéphane Courtois B) Richard Pipes C) Alexander Dallin D) Mark Bradley
A) Marxism rejects moral norms, potentially legitimating atrocious crimes. B) Marxism is strictly opposed to any state-led violence. C) Marxism explicitly requires peaceful revolution. D) Marxism prohibits violence against all non-combatants.
A) Jean-François Revel B) Andrzej Walicki C) Stéphane Courtois D) George Watson
A) Religious fundamentalism B) Direct orders from the United Nations C) Nationalist ideas D) Capitalist market forces
A) The belief in absolute free market capitalism B) The belief in democratic decentralization C) The Leninist belief in the one-party state D) The belief in total pacifism
A) Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev B) Felix Dzerzhinsky C) Joseph Stalin D) Mengistu Haile Mariam
A) Vladimir Lenin B) Mengistu Haile Mariam C) Stephen Hicks D) Robert Conquest
A) Exile them B) Re-educate them through labor C) Imprison them for life D) Shoot them
A) They were a natural consequence of Lenin's system B) They were an aberration that Lenin would have opposed C) They were caused by outside interference D) They were purely defensive measures against foreign invasion
A) Eric D. Weitz B) Stephen Hicks C) Michael Mann D) Robert Gellately
A) Freedom of the press B) Concentration camps C) Democratic elections D) Independent judicial review
A) Agricultural efficiency B) Industrial urbanization C) Protections of civil rights D) Military spending
A) Religious conflict B) Excessive environmental regulation C) The lack of modern technology D) The failure of the rule of law
A) Capitalism or feudalism B) Changing course or choosing 'terror-command' C) Diplomacy or total war D) Centralization or absolute anarchy
A) Extremely intellectual B) Pathological cruelty C) Physically imposing D) Diplomatic and cautious
A) Lack of interest in power B) A desire for global peace C) Extreme paranoia D) The advice of democratic councils
A) External pressure from Western powers B) Personalist leadership C) Spontaneous popular uprisings D) Natural economic cycles
A) All of them B) Less than 10 percent C) Exactly 25 percent D) Over half
A) Mass starvation B) The killing of religious leaders C) Political killing D) The killing of peasants
A) Benevolent B) Accidental C) Intentional D) Unavoidable
A) Colonialism B) Nationalism C) Totalitarianism D) Capitalism
A) Vincent Bevins B) Mike Davis C) Daniel Goldhagen D) Seumas Milne
A) Riga B) Tallinn C) Moscow D) Budapest
A) 2008 B) 2007 C) 2017 D) 1993
A) United States Congress B) The Smithsonian Institution C) The Supreme Court D) The White House
A) 450 B) 199 C) 812 D) 627
A) Riga B) Moscow C) Budapest D) Tallinn
A) The Senate of Canada B) Estonian Institute of Historical Memory C) National Capital Commission D) Department of Canadian Heritage
A) Laure Neumayer B) Kersti Kaljulaid C) Kristen Ghodsee D) The President of the European Union
A) Lithuania. B) Latvia. C) Estonia. D) Cambodia.
A) During the early 1930s. B) In the late 1960s. C) Before World War II. D) After World War II.
A) NKVD B) The Baltic States Security Force C) The Chinese Communist Party D) The International Military Tribunal
A) Publishing statistics regarding the Great Purge B) Equating the USSR's actions with the Third Reich's actions C) Criticizing the Red Army's role in the Baltic states D) Public discussion of the Holodomor
A) The National Program for Agricultural Development B) The Great Leap Forward C) The Red Terror Economic Plan D) The Cultural Revolution
A) Administrative detention for 15 days B) Being buried alive C) A fine of 2,000 rubles D) Exile to a labor camp
A) Eric D. Weitz B) Michael Mann C) Antoine Garapon D) Pol Pot
A) Agrarian capitalism B) Democratic socialism C) Racial communism D) State totalitarianism
A) 2018 B) 1997 C) 2022 D) 1979
A) 2 years B) 10 years C) 4 years D) 20 years
A) One quarter B) One tenth C) One third D) One half
A) 2018 B) 1997 C) 2022 D) 1979
A) 100 B) 10 C) 33 D) 5
A) Traian Băsescu B) Meles Zenawi C) Vladimir Tismăneanu D) Haile Selassie
A) Addis Ababa B) Bucharest C) The Hague D) Maryland
A) Presidential Commission B) The Derg C) Christian Solidarity Worldwide D) Save the Children Fund
A) Gheorghe Boldur-Lățescu B) Dennis Deletant C) Vladimir Tismăneanu D) Traian Băsescu
A) The Genocide Protocol B) The Red Terror C) The Gulag System D) The Pitești Experiment
A) Gheorghe Boldur-Lățescu B) Traian Băsescu C) Vladimir Tismăneanu D) Dennis Deletant
A) Psychiatric abuse B) Forced labor only C) Public execution D) Deportation
A) Milovan Đilas B) David Matas C) Venko Markovski D) Josip Broz Tito
A) Knićanin B) Goli otok C) Bleiburg D) Belgrade
A) 50,000 B) Some 120,000 C) 250,000 D) 10,000
A) Bleiburg B) The Russian gulags C) Goli otok D) Knićanin
A) Organizing a banned political party B) Attempting to flee the country C) Spying for the Soviet Union D) Writing poems considered anti-Titoist
A) The Soviet KGB B) The American FBI C) The Nazi Gestapo D) The Italian OVRA |
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