Chap 27 - Communism

Question 1

After World War II, Stalin’s economic recovery policy primarily benefitted the

a. domestic economy
b. per capita income
c. military
d. light industry

Answer 1

c.military

Question 2

A policy of de-Stalinization was implemented by

a. Georgy Malencov
b. Vyacheslav Molotov
c. Nikita Khrushchev
d. Leonid Breshnev

Answer 2

c.Nikita Khrushchev

Question 3

Pravda and Izvestiya are examples of Russian

a. blat
b. dissident novels
c. bourgeois amusements
d. newspapers

Answer 3

d.newspapers

Question 4

Which of the following did NOT contribute to the Soviet Union’s stagnant economy?

a. black market transactions
b. inadequate technology
c. material incentives
d. factory quotas

Answer 4

c.material incentives

Question 5

Which of the following countries did not help form the western border of the USSR?

a. Poland
b. Yugoslavia
c. Hungary
d. Czechoslovakia

Answer 5

b.Yugoslavia

Question 6

The author of The Gulag Archipelago was

a. Dimitri Shostakovich
b. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
c. Boris Pasternak
d. Ivan Denisovich

Answer 6

b.Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Question 7

Which Russians worked what came to be known as “the double shift”?

a. blue-collar workers
b. white-collar workers
c. students
d. women

Answer 7

d.women

Question 8

The cornerstone of Gorbachev’s reform program was “restructuring,” or

a. perestroika
b. sajudis
c. sputnik
d. glasnost

Answer 8

a.perestroika

Question 9

At the Communist Party conference in 1988, Gorbachev called for the creation of a new Soviet parliament called the

a. Congress of People’s Deputies
b. Popular Front for Perestroika
c. National Congress
d. Supreme Soviet

Answer 9

a.Congress of People’s Deputies

Question 10

Who was the first president of the Soviet Union?

a. Vladimir Putin
b. Yuri Andropov
c. Boris Yeltsin
d. Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 10

d.Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 11

Which country was home to the rise of the independent labor movement called Solidarity?

a. Czechoslovakia
b. Yugoslavia
c. Hungary
d. Poland

Answer 11

d.Poland

Question 12

What year did the Communist government of East Germany open the Berlin Wall?

a. 1989
b. 1990
c. 1991
d. 1988

Answer 12

a.1989

Question 13

The Great Leap Forward was part of Mao Zedong’s program of

a. restructuring the CCP
b. acculturation
c. collectivization
d. school curriculum reform

Answer 13

c.collectivization

Question 14

The Red Guards attempted to eradicate the “four ________.”

a. olds
b. gangs
c. books
d. roads

Answer 14

a.olds

Question 15

Who formally brought the Cultural Revolution to an end?

a. Liang Heng
b. Jiang Qing
c. Mao Zedong
d. Deng Xiaoping

Answer 15

d.Deng Xiaoping

Question 16

Critics complained that Deng Xiaoping’s program had failed to achieve a “fifth modernization,” or

a. capitalism
b. democracy
c. socialism
d. self-reliance

Answer 16

b.democracy

Question 17

Who was the author of The Sun Shines over the Sangan River?

a. Zhang Xinxin
b. Ding Ling
c. Mo Yan
d. Bai Hua

Answer 17

b.Ding Ling

Question 18

Whose film Bitter Love criticized the excesses of the Cultural Revolution?

a. Mo Yan
b. Bai Hua
c. Zhang Xinxin
d. Zhong Weimin

Answer 18

b.Bai Hua

Question 19

The “Prague Spring” occurred in Czechoslovakia under the rule of

a. Alexander Dubcek
b. Walter Ulbricht
c. Antonin Novotny
d. Gutav Husak

Answer 19

a.Alexander Dubcek

Question 20

Charter 77 was founded in order to protest

a. cultural repression
b. Soviet politicization
c. human rights violations
d. restrictive economic policies

Answer 20

c.human rights violations