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Question 1

What was the main theme of jokes in the Soviet Union?

Answer 1

the hypocrisy of a communist system that promised equality and abundance for all but delivered a dismal and uncertain economic life for the many and great privileges for the few

Question 2

When a Soviet citizen entered a medical clinic one day and asked an ear-and-eye doctor, when asked about his problem, what did he say?

Answer 2

Well, I keep hearing one thing and seeing another.

Question 3

Modern communism found its political and philosophical roots in the 19th century, in what?

Answer 3

socialism, inspired by the teachings of Karl Marx

Question 4

By the 1970s, what amount of the world’s population lived in societies governed by communist regimes?

Answer 4

one-third

Question 5

What country came under communist rule in 1924 as a spillover of the Russian Revolution?

Answer 5

Mongolia

Question 6

Vietnam a more locally based communist movement came under the leadership of what person who led Vietnam to embodied both a socialist vision and Vietnamese nationalism?

Answer 6

Ho Chi Minh

Question 7

In Latin America, who led a revolutionary nationalist movement against a repressive, American-backed government in Cuba?

Answer 7

Fidel Castro

Question 8

In the aftermath of World War II, communist parties played an important role where?

Answer 8

Greece, France and Italy

Question 9

In the 1950s, a small communist party in the United States became the focus of an intense wave of fear and political repression known as what?

Answer 9

McCarthyism

Question 10

Through what organization, Soviet authorities also sought to control their policies and actions of the countries joining the communist party?

Answer 10

Comintern (Communist International)

Question 11

During the cold war decades, what brought the Soviet Union and Eastern European communist states together in a military alliance designed to counter NATO alliances?

Answer 11

the Warsaw Pact

Question 12

What parallel organization tied Eastern European economies tightly to the economy of the Soviet Union?

Answer 12

the Council on Mutual Economic Assistance

Question 13

What joined the Soviet Union and China in an alliance in 1950 that caused many in the West to view communism as a unified international movement aimed at their destruction?

Answer 13

Treaty of Friendship

Question 14

In St. Petersburg, how many wives of soldiers demonstrated for bread and peace?

Answer 14

100,000

Question 15

By February 1917, who had lost almost all support and was forced to abdicate the throne, thus ending the Romanov dynasty?

Answer 15

Tsar Nicholas II

Question 16

What small socialist party with a determined and charismatic leader, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, more commonly known as Lenin, was the most effective of the radical groups who expressed their feelings to the Povisional Government?

Answer 16

Bolsheviks

Question 17

What were Bolshevik military forces known as, where lower-class men were forced into during the civil war in 1918?

Answer 17

the Red Army

Question 18

What did the Bolsheviks rename their country to?

Answer 18

the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR or Soviet Union)

Question 19

Where did Stalin act to install fully communist governments, loyal to himself?

Answer 19

Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria

Question 20

Who was the leader of Yugoslavia who openly defied Soviet efforts to control Yugoslav communism, and who proclaimed, “Our goal is that everyone should be master in his own house?”

Answer 20

Josef Broz, known as Tito

Question 21

Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party(CCP)?

Answer 21

Mao Zedong

Question 22

Who was the opponent of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

Answer 22

Guomindang (Nationalist Party), which governed China after 1928

Question 23

Who lead the Guomindang (Nationalist Party)?

Answer 23

Chiang Kai-shek

Question 24

Chinese communists looked among who for support?

Answer 24

the country’s peasant villages

Question 25

What gained the CCP a growing measure of respect and support among China’s peasants?

Answer 25

years of guerrilla warfare, experiments with land reform in areas under communist control, and the creation of a communist military force

Question 26

What did communists do to recruit women for the revolution?

Answer 26

established a Marriage Law that outlawed arranged or “purchased” marriages, made divorce easier, and gave women the right to vote and own property

Question 27

How many men did China’s communist-led People’s Liberation Army have?

Answer 27

900,000 men, supported by additional 2 million militia troops

Question 28

In 1919, the Communist party set up what special organization (Women’s Department), whose radical leaders, all women, pushed a decidedly feminist agenda during the 1920s?

Answer 28

Zhenotdel

Question 29

What former streetcar conductor who played an active role in the revolution, recalled the impact of participation in Zhenotdel?

Answer 29

Alexandra Rodionova

Question 30

Stalin singled out the richer peasants known as what, for exclusion from the new collective farms?

Answer 30

kulaks

Question 31

What marked Mao’s first response to these distortions of Chinese socialism and promoted small0scale industrialization in the rural areas, fostered widespread and pratical technological eductation, and it envisaged an immediate transition to full communism in the “people’s communes”?

Answer 31

The Great Leap Forward of 1958-1960