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