Deck 27: Brave New World: Communism on Trial

Question 1

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
"virgin lands"

Answer 1

Answer not provided.

Question 2

What was the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution? What did its creator expect it to achieve? Why? Was it successful? If so,in what ways? If not,why not?

Answer 2

Answer not provided.

Question 3

What changes came about for Chinese women and in Chinese family life as a result of a)the establishment of communism and b)the demise of China's Maoist era?

Answer 3

Answer not provided.

Question 4

What were the chief characteristics of the rule of Leonid Brezhnev and his immediate successors from 1964 to 1985? Was there any forewarning in the early 1980s of the advent of perestroika?

Question 5

Did relationships between the government of the Soviet Union and their Eastern European "satellites" change significantly after the death of Stalin? If so,in what ways,and why? If not,why not?

Question 6

How has the Chinese Communist Party,to date,been able to retain power while that of the Soviet Union lost control of the state apparatus.Show why.

Question 7

Evaluate the changes Communism brought to the lives of women in Russia and China.In which country would you rather have lived during these revolutions as a woman and why?

Question 8

"Gorbachev succeeded,and by succeeding he failed." Discuss.

Question 9

What were the most important factors that helped to bring about détente between the superpowers? Were the personalities of leaders as important as events to the creation of détente? Why or why not?

Question 10

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
"Cornman"

Question 11

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
"When I die,the imperialists will strangle all of you like a litter of kittens."

Question 12

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
KGB

Question 13

Compare and contrast the Russian era of Perestroika under Mikhail Gorbachev and the Chinese era under Deng Xiaoping.Can the two rulers be considered equivalent in terms of their impact on their respective countries? Why or why not?

Question 14

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Khrushchev and destalinization

Question 15

"Mao Zedong was merely a traditional Chinese emperor." Discuss,pro and con.

Question 16

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Nikita Khrushchev

Question 17

How did the domestic and foreign policy goals and policies of Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev differ,and why? Would the Soviet Union have been better off if Khrushchev had been in power longer? Explain.

Question 18

How were the impacts of Stalin and Mao on their societies similar,and how were they different? Did the goals and policies of their successors differ from theirs? Explain.

Question 19

In your opinion,what were the major causes or events that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union? Be specific.

Question 20

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Leonid Brezhnev,Alexei Kosygin and "de-Khrushchevization"

Question 21

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Andrei Sakharov

Question 22

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Hungary's "communism with a capitalist face-lift"

Question 23

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agricultural "collectivization "

Question 24

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an aging leadership

Question 25

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Berlin Wall

Question 26

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Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko

Question 27

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"Hard work for a few years,happiness for a thousand"

Question 28

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"double shift"

Question 29

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"commonwealth of independent states"

Question 30

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Boris Yeltsin

Question 31

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Great Leap Forward

Question 32

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"We will bury you"

Question 33

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 34

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"people's communes"

Question 35

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Czechoslovakia's Charter 77 and Vaclav Havel

Question 36

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Boris Pasternak's Dr.Zhivago

Question 37

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Mao Zedong's "New Democracy"

Question 38

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago

Question 39

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Lech Walesa and Solidarity

Question 40

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perestroika and glasnost

Question 41

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Little Red Book

Question 42

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
from "Serve the people" to "Create wealth for the people"

Question 43

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Red Guards

Question 44

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"Science and Democracy"

Question 45

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Tibet and Xinjiang province

Question 46

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Spratly Islands and Diaoyu Island

Question 47

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Tiananmen Square,1989

Question 48

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The China That Can Say No

Question 49

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Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Question 50

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"Four Modernizations"

Question 51

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"Mao Zedong thought

Question 52

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"uninterrupted revolution"

Question 53

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Deng Xiaoping's "black cat,white cat"

Question 54

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"taking the capitalist road"

Question 55

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Confucianism and the CCP

Question 56

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the "four olds"

Question 57

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Falun Gong

Question 58

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China's family planning

Question 59

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the missing "fifth modernization"

Question 60

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
"rural responsibility system"

Question 61

Which of the following was not an example of the problem of the aging leadership in the Soviet Union in the 1980s:

A)Yuri Andropov
B)Leonid Brezhnev
C)Mikhail Gorbachev
D)Konstantin Chernenko.
E)c and d

Question 62

After assuming control of the Soviet Union,Nikita Khrushchev's policies

A)became much more belligerent than they had been before he replaced Malenkov.
B)increased Stalinist repression and freed all political prisoners.
C)were characterized by a program of de-Stalinization and broader intellectual tolerance.
D)diminished the spirit of rebellion in the Soviet satellites by promising them complete independence in 1973.
E)placed less emphasis on the consumer aspects of the economy.

Question 63

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
socialist realism

Question 64

During the late 1960s and the 1970s,

A)annual economic growth in the Soviet Union was between eight and eleven percent.
B)freedom of statement became much more common in the Soviet Union,shown by the awarding of literary prizes and pensions to Andrei Sakharov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
C)even Soviet airplane crashes and governmental scandals received tasteless and extensive press coverage under Brezhnev's "open society" policies.
D)the problems of economic stagnation and political and administrative gerontocracy were effectively ignored under Brezhnev.
E)the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution greatly improved education and economic growth in China.

Question 65

Which of the following was not characteristic of Soviet society during the Brezhnev years:

A)a more restrictive attitude towards dissidents.
B)an educational system focusing on rote memorization and political indoctrination.
C)prevent the Soviet people from being exposed to harmful foreign ideas,including rock music.
D)a willingness to print actual truth in Pravda and real news in Investia,unlike under Stalin.
E)it was forbidden to be left-handed.

Question 66

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
"the Mao suit" v."big noses"

Question 67

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Creeping Capitalism

Question 68

Leonid Brezhnev

A)valued stability above all,and blocked any significant attempts to deal with economic or social problems.
B)greatly increased the funding for new agricultural areas in Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
C)sharply reduced the powers of the KGB and Interior Ministry.
D)was the first to finally break with Stalinism and to conciliate the Czech regime.
E)was a sincere admirer of the policies of Nikita Khrushchev.

Question 69

Joseph Stalin

A)inaugurated a new,benevolent stage of governmental policy with his Stalingrad speech in January,1946.
B)continued his reliance on the terror apparatus,including the holding of about 9,000,000 Soviet citizens in Siberian concentration camps.
C)named his protégé,Andrei Zhdanov,as his successor.
D)denounced Lenin at the Thirtieth Party Congress.
E)pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West in 1948.

Question 70

Mikhail Gorbachev

A)was the well-placed son of the head of the state oil-refining corporation.
B)was picked for political leadership because of his record as a KGB data interpreter.
C)had moved up rapidly since his appointment to the Party Central Committee in 1978.
D)had spent many years in the gulag.
E)had supported Mao Zedong against Nikita Khrushchev.

Question 71

At the close of World War II,the Soviet Union

A)had increased food production by tapping new,rich lands in Siberia and Turkmenistan.
B)under Stalin decided to provide a "socialist bonus" of more consumer goods for the masses by slowing the expansion of heavy industry.
C)was in short supply of housing,and continued to be.
D)sharply reduced military spending,but only after the surrender of Japan.
E)moved toward greater liberalization.

Question 72

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
"Little Emperors"

Question 73

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Three-Gorges Dam

Question 74

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Bai Hua's Bitter Love and MoYan's The Garlic Ballads and The Republic of Wine

Question 75

The Soviet economy

A)grew rapidly in the heavy industry sector during the late 1940s and the early 1950s.
B)was,unlike the capitalist economies,devoted to raising the living standards of the poorest workers,the "toiling masses."
C)obtained capital for expansion from overseas governments and investors.
D)was overseen from Gosplan headquarters in the Lyubyanka building in Kharkov.
E)became consumer driven,thus eliminating black-market activity.

Question 76

Which of the following statements is not true of the Brezhnev years in the Soviet Union?

A)Khrushchev was forced into retirement.
B)As a result of détente,there was a freer and more relaxed domestic atmosphere.
C)The economic policies continued to de-emphasize consumer goods production.
D)Agricultural problems continued to cause many difficulties.
E)The ruling system had problems of gerontocracy.

Question 77

Characteristic of Stalin's domestic policies after World War II was

A)the end of collectivization.
B)an emphasis on the growth of heavy industry.
C)an emphasis on consumer goods.
D)the imprisonment of two million returning soldiers,accused of "capitalist subversion."
E)exiling hundreds of thousands of former czarist officials.

Question 78

In the early 1970s

A)Ho Chi Minh was elected mayor of Saigon and,two years later,of Hong Kong.
B)Yuri Andropov made major changes in Soviet industrial management by giving top positions in the oil and transport industries to executives from Japan and the West.
C)Richard Nixon praised Mao Zedong's "mass line" system as not only effective but "as American as apple pie."
D)Stalin's reputation rose somewhat under Brezhnev's rule.
E)Lyndon Johnson ended the Vietnam War.

Question 79

Nikita Khrushchev

A)was determined to follow in Stalin's path,avoiding even the appearance of innovation.
B)was known as "old stone butt" by Western leaders.
C)was mocked as "Cottonman" by many Russians.
D)permitted the publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
E)praised Stalin at the Thirty-First Party Congress.

Question 80

Which of the following occurred when Nikita Khrushchev was in power?

A)the Berlin Airlift
B)the Afghanistan occupation
C)the enunciation of the Carter-Khrushchev Accord
D)the Twentieth National Congress speech
E)the Korean War