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1
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Who wrote the music for Rite of the Spring?

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Igor Stravinsky

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Who was the founder and producer of Ballets Russes?

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Serge Diaghilev

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Who were the most famous dancers in the early 20th century Russian Ballet?

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Michel Fokine
Vaslav Nijinsky
Anna Pavlova

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4
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Name three works by Igor Stravinsky

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The Firebird
Petrushka
The Rite of Spring

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What famous Moscow theatre was founded by Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Dancheko?

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Moscow Art Theatre

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Name four plays that premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre between its founding and 1910

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Czar Fyodor Ivanovitch
Brothers Karamazov
Lower Depths

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What writer wrote plays which were especially well- suited for the Moscow Art Theatres concept and style of drama?

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Chekhovs

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What editing technique is Sergei Einstein famous for?

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Montage

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9
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Name three Einstein films

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Strike
Ivan the terrible
Old and new
October
Alexander Nevsky
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10
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What was Stalin’s nationality?

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Soviet

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11
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What was the Gulag?

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Main directorate for corrective Labor Camps

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12
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What was a kulak?

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Wealthier peasants

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13
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In what year did Stalin die?

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1953

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What happened in 1932-1933 as a result of the collectivization campaign in Ukraine?

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Ukrainian Famine

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Whose novel, Mother, is considered the prototype for socialist realism in literature?

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Maxim Gorky

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Define “Socialist Realism” how did the theory of “socialist realism” relate to its application in art and as a political tool?

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The theory that art, literature, and music should reflect and promote socialist ideals

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Who wrote the novel, How the Steel was Tempered?

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Nikolai Ostrovsky

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What is the name of the hero in How the Steel was Tempered?

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Paved Korchagin

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How did the Soviet Union fare in the beginning of the world war 2?

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Good?

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What do Russians call world war 2?

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The Great Patriotic war

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What major Russian city was held under siege for about 900 days during world war 2?

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Leningrad

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What city on the Volga River was the site of a major Russian victory in world war 2?

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Volgograd

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23
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In what soviet city did Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin meet in February 1945 to discuss the post war future of Europe?

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Yalta

24
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What Soviet leader is most closely associated with the “thaw”?

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Nikita Khrushchev

25
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What was the name of the first artificial satellite to successfully orbit the Earth?

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Sputnik

26
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Who was the first man in space?

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Yuri A. Gagarin

27
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What Soviet leader is most closely associated with the period of stagnation ?

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Leonids Brezhnev

28
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What physicist and champion of human rights was awarded the Nobel peace prizein 1975?

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Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov

29
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Who were the leaders of the Soviet Union between Brezhnev and Gorbachev?

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Yuri Adropov

Konstantin Chernenko

30
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What Solzhenitsyn novel about a day In the life of a prisoner in the GULAG was published in Novyi Mir in 1962?

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

31
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Name the five Russian writers who won the Nobel prize for literature

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Ivan Bunin
Boris Pasternak
Mikhail Sholokhov
Alexander Solzhenitsyn 
Joseph Brodsky
32
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What is the subject matter of Yevtushenkos Baba Yar?

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Holocaust and the torture of Jews and himself went through

33
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With what artist did Nikita Khrushchev have a confrontation at an art exhibit at Manezh Square?

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Ernst Neizvestny

34
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Whose trial for “parasitism” in 1964 signaled the end of the “thaw”?

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Joseph Brodsky

35
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Define samizdat.

A

The practice of distributing literature through carbon copies

36
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Define tamizdat.

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The practice of publishing works abroad

37
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Who was the editor of Novyi Mir throughout most of the fifties and sixties?

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Alexander Tvardovskii

38
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What were some of the contributions to Russian literary culture made by Novyi Mir?

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Published previously banned or limited authors

39
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Why were Andrei Sinyavskii and Yuli Daniel put on trial in 1966?

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Tried to publish anti- soviet literature abroad

40
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Name 3 of Russia’s leading “guitar poets” or bards

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Alexander Galich
Bulat Okudzhava
Vladimir Vysotsky

41
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What was Vladimir Vysotskys job when he was not singing or writing verse?

A

Actor

42
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What are some of themes contained in Vsotskys songs?

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Soviet prison life
Soviet official hypocrisy
Russian daily life

43
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What was remarkable about Vyoyskys funeral?

A

How many people attended it

44
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How was Vysotskys music distributed throughout the USSR in 1979?

A

Afghanistan

45
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Who was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the year it broke up?

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Mikhail Gorbachev

46
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What 2 Russian words entered the english language as the names of two of Gorbachevs political policies? Meaning?

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Glasnost: publicity, make thing more open and transparent
Perestroika: restructuring

47
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In what year did the USSR break up?

A

1991

48
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Who was the first president of post Soviet Russia?

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Boris Yeltsin

49
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Who was the president of Russia from 2008-2012?

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Dmitry Medvedev

50
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Who is the current president of Russia?

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Vladimir Putin

51
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What occurred In October of 1993?

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Constitutional crisis

52
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Who is the artist who created the new monument to Peter the Great in Moscow?

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Zurab Tsereteli

53
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Name 3 contemporary Russian writers

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Viktor Pelevin
Tatyana Tolstaya
Vladimir Sorokin
Vladimir Makanin
Boris Akunin
54
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What is chernukha?

A

Bleak literature about the negative aspects of soviet life

55
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What happened at the opening of The Rite of Spring?

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It started and no music played, the audience booed and dancers could barely hear themselves

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