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