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What was the main theme of jokes in the Soviet Union?
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
A Frenchman, an Englishman, and a Soviet Russian are admiring a painting of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, what does the Russian reply?
No they are Russian communists of course. They have no house, nothing to wear, little to eat, and they think they are in Paradise
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? Well, I keep hearing one thing and seeing another.”
Modern communism found its political and philosophical roots in the 19th century, in what?
socialism, inspired by the teachings of Karl Marx
What was socialism with they eye of a final goal of communism for how the world was run?
an intermediate stage
By the 1970s, what amount of the world’s population lived in societies governed by communist regimes?
one-third
What country came under communist rule in 1924 as a spillover of the Russian Revolution?
Mongolia
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?
Ho Chi Minh
In Latin America, who led a revolutionary nationalist movement against a repressive, American-backed government in Cuba?
Fidel Castro
The victory of the Vietnamese communists spilled over into what neighboring countries?
Laos and Cambodia
A shaky communist regime took power where in 1979, propped up briefly by massive Soviet military support?
Afghanistan
Following Japan’s defeat in World War II, what colony of Japan was partitioned with the northern half coming under Soviet and therefore communist control?
Korea
Revolutionary communist movements threatened established governments where sometimes provoking brutal crackdowns by those governments?
Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bolivia, Peru, and elsewhere
In the aftermath of World War II, communist parties played an important role where?
Greece, France and Italy
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?
McCarthyism
Through what organization, Soviet authorities also sought to control their policies and actions of the countries joining the communist party?
Comintern (Communist International)
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?
the Warsaw Pact
What parallel organization tied Eastern European economies tightly to the economy of the Soviet Union?
the Council on Mutual Economic Assistance
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?
Treaty of Friendship
What was the rivalry between China and Russia or the split between them called?
Sino-Sov. Rivalry (Sino=China)(Sov.=Soviet Russia)
Communists also worried lest their revolutions end up in a military dictatorship like that of whom?
Napoleon following the French Revolution
The fight in Russia between the Middle class and working class is also known as a fight between whom?
bourgeoise=middle class vs. proletariat=working class
The fall of Tsar Nicholas II, ended what dynasty, originally started by Peter the Great?
the Romanov dynasty
In St. Petersburg, how many wives of soldiers demonstrated for bread, land, and peace?
100,000
By February 1917, who had lost almost all support and was forced to abdicate the throne, thus ending the Romanov dynasty?
Tsar Nicholas II
