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30 Cards in this Set
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1. Under Leonid Brezhnev,
A) the Soviet Union established its technological prowess, launching a space program that sent the first satellite, and the first human, into space in 1961. B) the United States and the Soviet Union clashed in the Cuban Missile Crisis. C) the Soviet Union launched the invasion of Afghanistan, a costly and unpopular war. D) All of the above. |
Correct Answer(s): C
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2. The Russian political culture feature of seeing leaders as father figures is called
A) patriotism B) patrimonialism C) authoritarianism D) fatherly love |
Correct Answer(s): B
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3. The foreign policy philosophy of “New Thinking,” based on the argument that Soviet security depended on a political relationship with the West, rather than a military rivalry, was introduced by
A) Putin B) Yeltsin C) Gorbachev D) Khrushchev |
Correct Answer(s): C
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4. Vladimir Putin
A) stepped down from the presidency in 2008 only after insuring that his handpicked successor would assume power B) expanded the protection of free press, decreased the power of the security services, and increased the freedom and autonomy of regional governments C) shifted the government from providing leadership to listening to what the people wanted, a change characterized as shifting from "top down" to "bottom up" government D) all of the above |
Correct Answer(s): A
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5. After Lenin died, _______ won the succession struggle and served as leader of the Soviet Union for the next thirty years.
A) Trotsky B) Stalin C) Khrushchev D) Zinoviev |
Correct Answer(s): B
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6. Which of the following is true about Russian government?
A) The Constitutional Court has no independent authority and is limited to enforcing the policies of the government B) With the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the creation of so many new nations, Russia no longer has a problem with ethnic groups C) Vladimir Putin has been frustrated with the independence of regional leaders and has sought to limit their powers D) None of the above |
Correct Answer(s): C
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7. In December of 1991,
A) Gorbachev resigned as president of the USSR. B) the Soviet Union ceased to exist. C) what had been a superpower was now replaced by 15 independent countries. D) All of the above. |
Correct Answer(s): D
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8. The leader of the Bolsheviks and founder of the Soviet Union was
A) Vladimir Lenin B) Joseph Stalin C) Karl Marx D) Mikhail Gorbachev |
Correct Answer(s): A
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9. The first president of independent Russia was
A) Vladimir Putin B) Dmitry Medvedev C) Boris Yeltsin D) Leon Trotsky |
Correct Answer(s): C
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10. Under the system used in the Soviet Union,
A) all real power was focused in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. B) the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was run by an elite that made all policy. C) policy was implemented by a bureaucracy directed by the Communist Party. D) All of the above. |
Correct Answer(s): D
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11. Which of the following is true?
A) As president of Russia, Vladimir Putin gained acclaim for rejecting authoritarian methods and resisting the development of a cult of personality. B) The office of prime minister is much more powerful than the office of the presidency. C) The president of Russia possesses the power to appoint and dismiss the prime minister. D) All of the above |
Correct Answer(s): C
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12. Under Joseph Stalin,
A) Gosplan, the economic planning agency, decided what should be produced and the price at which it should be sold. B) Agricultural policy produced enough food to feed the people of the Soviet Union and to export to other countries at a profit. C) The CPSU achieved Marx's goal of a classless society. D) All of the above. |
Correct Answer(s): A
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13. Russian political culture features
A) a tradition of authoritarianism B) a suspicion and rejection of strong leadership C) an insistence on an open political system D) a recognition that some level of chaos is inevitable, and thus acceptable, in any political system |
Correct Answer(s): A
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14. Which of the following is true about the Federal Assembly of Russia?
A) It is divided into a Federation Council and a State Duma. B) All of the members of the Council and the Duma are elected on a winner take all basis. C) The Federal Assembly has become the dominant force in Russian politics, exploiting the weaknesses in the Russian presidency. D) All of the above. |
Correct Answer(s): A
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15. Which of the following is true?
A) The executive power of Russia is confined solely to the prime minister. B) Russia’s legislative body has been split among a confusing array of new political parties since the 1990’s, and no single party has been able to establish a clear majority. C) The State Duma has not asserted itself an an independent power center. D) All of the above |
Correct Answer(s): C
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16. Boris Yeltsin
A) confronted the same problems that Gorbachev faced B) dissolved the Russian legislature, which prompted an attempt to remove Yeltsin from power C) put down an attempted coup with military force D) all of the above |
Correct Answer(s): D
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17. Which of the following was a feature of the rule of Joseph Stalin?
A) A total commitment to and adoption of the principles of Karl Marx. B) An expansion of Lenin's idea of promoting global revolution. C) The systematic use of terror, the elimination of human rights, and a cult of personality. D) All of the above. |
Correct Answer(s): C
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18. Dmitry Medvedev was
A) the first man in space B) the diplomat who met secretly with Robert Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis C) Russia's president D) the architect of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan |
Correct Answer(s): C
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19. Which of the following is true?
A) A competitive multiparty system was a feature of the Soviet Union and it continues to be a feature of the Russian political system B) The Communist Party continues to be a major political party in Russia C) One of the few issues that unites all of the major parties in Russia is an opposition to free market principles seen in the West D) All of the above |
Correct Answer(s): B
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20. Which of the following is true?
A) The Soviet command economy is still the guiding principle of the Russian economy. B) Mikhail Gorbachev’s failure in trying to bring reform to the Soviet economy was his unwillingness to actually make the changes he proposed. C) Boris Yeltsin succeeded where Gorbachev failed because he made changes in the economy in a slow, steady fashion that produced no dramatic results. D) None of the above |
Correct Answer(s): D
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21. Gorbachev's goal of making the socialist system more efficient and democratic was undermined by the fact that
A) he lacked legitimacy, preaching democratic accountability but never popularly elected. B) he found himself caught between liberals who thought his reforms too timid and conservatives who thought that he had gone too far. C) his reforms brought into the open tensions among the Soviet republics, problems that made it difficult to keep the USSR together. D) All of the above. |
Correct Answer(s): D
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22. ___________ took great strides toward establishing itself as the dominant party in Russia with its impressive showing in the 2007 Duma elections.
A) Fair Russia B) United Russia C) The Liberal Democratic Party D) The Communist Party |
Correct Answer(s): B
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23. The _______ were led by Lenin and subscribed to his idea of a vanguard party that would be at the heart of the revolutionary movement.
A) Chechnyans B) Mensheviks C) Bolsheviks D) Tsarists |
Correct Answer(s): C
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24. “Shock therapy” administered by president Yeltsin in the early 1990s refers to
A) Lifting of price controls on consumer goods and rapidly privatizing the state-owned enterprises B) Rapidly increasing production of oil to fill the state coffers C) Shocking the Russian people by being blunt about the difficulties the country was facing D) State-sponsored system of psychological counseling for the elderly |
Correct Answer(s): A
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25. Under Nikita Khrushchev,
A) the reign of terror initiated under previous rulers not only continued, but intensified B) the idea of collective leadership was criticized, ridiculed and ultimately rejected C) the USSR confronted the US over the issue of nuclear warheads in Cuba D) all of the above |
Correct Answer(s): C
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26. The _______ was created by Boris Yeltsin as a meeting place for regional representatives to discuss an early draft of the new Russian constitution, and became a permanent part of the Russian government system.
A) Federation Council B) State Duma C) Constitutional Court D) Party Congress |
Correct Answer(s): A
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27. The 1917 revolutions in Russia grew out of three interconnected factors:
A) the interventionist policies of the United States, the assassination of Czar Nicholas II, and the theories of Machiavelli. B) the rivalry with China, the prospect of war with Japan, and the theories of Lenin. C) the huge losses suffered by Russia in WWI, the theories of Karl Marx, and the leadership skills of Lenin and Trotsky. D) the rivalry with England, the theories of Lenin, and the leadership of Karl Marx. |
Correct Answer(s): C
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28. The policy making process in Russia
A) is very different from the process in the Soviet Union, where policy was made by the Communist Party and implemented by the state bureaucracy under CPSU supervision. B) is more and more defined by the concentration of power in the hands of the presidency. C) is complicated by the debate over the direction Russia should be taking on economic and foreign policy. D) All of the above. |
Correct Answer(s): D
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29. The Russian president
A) has the power to dissolve the State Duma and call new elections, to veto bills adopted by the Duma, and to introduce martial law during times of emergency B) can be impeached by the Federation Council C) has a supporting network of offices and institutions to help him with his administration D) all of the above |
Correct Answer(s): D
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30. Mikhail Gorbachev sought to change the status quo in the Soviet Union with his restructuring of the Soviet economic system, under the plan known as
A) glasnost. B) perestroika. C) Chechnya. D) democratization. |
Correct Answer(s): B
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