Exam 27: Brave New World: Communism on Trial

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? What were the key components of perestroika, which Mikhail Gorbachev espoused during the 1980s? Why did it fail?

Identify the following terms. -Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago

Identify the following terms. -"Cornman"

As recognition that Marxism-Leninism is losing its appeal in Communist China, Confucianism has regained official approval in recent years.

Identify the following terms. -Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Identify the following terms. -Great Leap Forward

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

A significant way in which China differed in implementing Communism from Russia was

This contemporary Chinese artist challenged the authority of the government and was taken into custody on charges of tax evasion.

The initial program of land collectivization in Communist China was

Identify the following terms. -"people's communes"

In your opinion, what were the major causes or events that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union? Be specific. Do you think the collapse of the Soviet Union was inevitable? Why or why not?

Characteristic of Stalin's domestic policies after World War 2 was

Identify the following terms. -Deng Xiaoping's "black cat, white cat"

Joseph Stalin

Identify the following terms. -Nikita Khrushchev

Identify the following terms. -the "four olds"

Identify the following terms. -the missing "fifth modernization"

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Identify the following terms. -perestroika and glasnost