5 Written Questions

1. person who won the 2008 Russian Presidential Election amid calls of voting irregularity
2. first part of 1917 Revolution - mutiny that ends czar rule - provisional government is instated under Kerensky
3. parliament tried to impeach Yeltsin - people supported parliament - Yeltsin put down the revolts and added his own unpopular forms to the new constitution
4. following 1905-1906 Revolution - confirmed czar as absolute leader of Russia and stated that the Duma, the state council, and the czar must pass any legislation before it became a law
5. range that serves as geographic dividing line between European Russia and Asian Russia

5 Matching Questions

1. October Manifesto
2. Russian
3. Permanent Revolution
4. 1st
5. Shock Therapy

1. a attempt by Nicholas II to appease the people without making any real reforms - flouted democratic reforms such as the legalization of political parties
2. b program instituted by Yeltsin that called for drastic economic changes including the lifting of price and currency controls, the withdrawal of state subsidies, and immediate trade liberalization - failed to bring lasting improvement to Russia
3. c _ largest country in the world
4. d language
5. e Trotsky's theory that called for global uprising of proletariat against bourgeoisie

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alexander II emancipated the serfs, but because of these, the social structure did not really change for the better - tied down the "emancipated" serfs
   1. Five Year Plans
   2. Great Purges
   3. Redemption Payments
   4. Collective Farming
2. series of directives Lenin published in the Russian newspaper "Pravda" to solidify support for the Bolsheviks and rally people to rise up against the provisional government following 1917 February Revolution
   1. Peter I
   2. Gorbachev
   3. Shock Therapy
   4. April Theses
3. czar that expanded Russia's territory from the Baltic in the east to the Pacific in the west - moved capital to St. Petersburg in an effort to "modernize" Russia
   1. Lenin
   2. Perestroika
   3. Stalin
   4. Peter I
4. first freely elected Russian President
   1. Lenin
   2. Stalin
   3. Trotsky
   4. Yeltsin
5. 2nd part of 1917 Revolution - Lenin seized control of Russia - minimal bloodshed
   1. Permanent Revolution
   2. October Revolution
   3. October Manifesto
   4. February Revolution

5 True/False Questions

1. Lenin → April Theses, War Communism, New Economic Policy

   True        False

2. Sunni Muslim → religious affiliation that dominates the region of Chechnya

   True        False

3. Stalin → Great Purges, Five Year Plans, Collective Farming

   True        False

4. Khrushchev → Glasnost, Perestroika, Law on Cooperatives

   True        False

5. Yeltsin → 1993 Constitutional Crisis, Shock Therapy, Rise of the Oligarchs and Privitization

   True        False