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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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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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Name three Einstein films

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

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Soviet

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What was the Gulag?

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Main directorate for corrective Labor Camps

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What was a kulak?

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Wealthier peasants

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

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Nikita Khrushchev

25
What was the name of the first artificial satellite to successfully orbit the Earth?
Sputnik
26
Who was the first man in space?
Yuri A. Gagarin
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What Soviet leader is most closely associated with the period of stagnation ?
Leonids Brezhnev
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What physicist and champion of human rights was awarded the Nobel peace prizein 1975?
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
29
Who were the leaders of the Soviet Union between Brezhnev and Gorbachev?
Yuri Adropov | Konstantin Chernenko
30
What Solzhenitsyn novel about a day In the life of a prisoner in the GULAG was published in Novyi Mir in 1962?
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
31
Name the five Russian writers who won the Nobel prize for literature
``` Ivan Bunin Boris Pasternak Mikhail Sholokhov Alexander Solzhenitsyn Joseph Brodsky ```
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What is the subject matter of Yevtushenkos Baba Yar?
Holocaust and the torture of Jews and himself went through
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With what artist did Nikita Khrushchev have a confrontation at an art exhibit at Manezh Square?
Ernst Neizvestny
34
Whose trial for "parasitism" in 1964 signaled the end of the "thaw"?
Joseph Brodsky
35
Define samizdat.
The practice of distributing literature through carbon copies
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Define tamizdat.
The practice of publishing works abroad
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Who was the editor of Novyi Mir throughout most of the fifties and sixties?
Alexander Tvardovskii
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What were some of the contributions to Russian literary culture made by Novyi Mir?
Published previously banned or limited authors
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Why were Andrei Sinyavskii and Yuli Daniel put on trial in 1966?
Tried to publish anti- soviet literature abroad
40
Name 3 of Russia's leading "guitar poets" or bards
Alexander Galich Bulat Okudzhava Vladimir Vysotsky
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What was Vladimir Vysotskys job when he was not singing or writing verse?
Actor
42
What are some of themes contained in Vsotskys songs?
Soviet prison life Soviet official hypocrisy Russian daily life
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What was remarkable about Vyoyskys funeral?
How many people attended it
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How was Vysotskys music distributed throughout the USSR in 1979?
Afghanistan
45
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the year it broke up?
Mikhail Gorbachev
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What 2 Russian words entered the english language as the names of two of Gorbachevs political policies? Meaning?
Glasnost: publicity, make thing more open and transparent Perestroika: restructuring
47
In what year did the USSR break up?
1991
48
Who was the first president of post Soviet Russia?
Boris Yeltsin
49
Who was the president of Russia from 2008-2012?
Dmitry Medvedev
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Who is the current president of Russia?
Vladimir Putin
51
What occurred In October of 1993?
Constitutional crisis
52
Who is the artist who created the new monument to Peter the Great in Moscow?
Zurab Tsereteli
53
Name 3 contemporary Russian writers
``` Viktor Pelevin Tatyana Tolstaya Vladimir Sorokin Vladimir Makanin Boris Akunin ```
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What is chernukha?
Bleak literature about the negative aspects of soviet life
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What happened at the opening of The Rite of Spring?
It started and no music played, the audience booed and dancers could barely hear themselves

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