Which of the following statements concerning the Soviet military following Stalin's death is most accurate?

Which of the following statements concerning the Soviet military following Stalin's death is most accurate?

A) Overall the Soviet Union played a cautious diplomatic game, almost never engaging in warfare but maintaining a high level of preparedness.
B) The continued growth of the Soviet military led to an increasing willingness on the part of Russian rulers to engage in direct military intervention around the globe.
C) Following Stalin's death, subsequent Soviet rulers enacted a policy of progressive demilitarization.
D) Following World War II, the Soviet military played no significant role in subsequent Russian history.
E) The Soviet military attempted to create a containment system when it came to countering American military moves.

Answer: A

Which of the following was a Soviet success during the years of Khrushchev's dominance?

Which of the following was a Soviet success during the years of Khrushchev's dominance?

A) The Cuban missile crisis
B) The development of agriculture in Siberia
C) The launching of Sputnik
D) Increases in overall agricultural productivity
E) Development of new nuclear weaponry

Answer: C

What leader emerged to take primary power in 1956?

What leader emerged to take primary power in 1956?

A) Joseph Stalin
B) Mikhail Gorbachev
C) Yuri Andropov
D) Nikita Khrushchev
E) Alexander Solzhenitsyn






Answer: D

Immediately after Stalin's death in 1953, what form of government was established?

Immediately after Stalin's death in 1953, what form of government was established?

A) A liberal democracy
B) A ruling committee rather than single-man rule
C) Autocracy under Leonid Brezhnev
D) Rule by the Supreme Soviet
E) A dictatorship under the rule of Gorbachev

Answer: B

Women in Russian industrialized society

Women in Russian industrialized society

A) rapidly reached the same status as males.
B) were less likely to be in the work force than women in the West.
C) dominated some professions, such as medicine.
D) were afforded the same type of domestic idealization typical of women in the West.
E) played a major role as political leaders.

Answer: C

By the 1970s, the Russian rate of population growth was

By the 1970s, the Russian rate of population growth was

A) much less than that of the West.
B) about the same as that of China.
C) about the same as that of the West.
D) much greater than the West.
E) much greater than found in former colonial regions.







Answer: A

In what way did the social organization of the industrialized Soviet Union come to resemble that of the West?

In what way did the social organization of the industrialized Soviet Union come to resemble that of the West?

A) Emphasis on service industries and managerial hierarchies
B) The division of urban society between workers and a managerial middle class
C) The absence of a true proletariat
D) Lack of a peasantry
E) The use of the free market as an economic mechanism

Answer: B

Which of the following was NOT a source of pressure on the Soviet family?

Which of the following was NOT a source of pressure on the Soviet family?

A) Religious constraints imposed by the Orthodox church
B) Crowded housing
C) Loss of ties to extended family life of the countryside
D) Mothers who worked long hours away from the home
E) Increased use of alcohol







Answer: A

What Russian author of Gulag Archipelago was exiled to the West, but found life there too materialistic?

What Russian author of Gulag Archipelago was exiled to the West, but found life there too materialistic?

A) Turgenev
B) Tolstoy
C) Solzhenitsyn
D) Karamazov
E) Pushkin






Answer: C

Which of the following statements concerning the Orthodox church under Stalin's regime is most accurate?

Which of the following statements concerning the Orthodox church under Stalin's regime is most accurate?

A) The regime appointed the Orthodox church the only approved religion within the state.
B) The Orthodox church became the primary instrument of the regime's policy of education.
C) The Orthodox church ceased to exist during the Stalinist regime.
D) Loyalties to orthodoxy persisted, but they were concentrated in a largely elderly minority.
E) The Orthodox church continued to endorse the political policies of the Soviet regime.

Answer: D

Despite the loosening of Soviet control over eastern Europe following Stalin's death, what aspects of Soviet domination continued to be enforced?

Despite the loosening of Soviet control over eastern Europe following Stalin's death, what aspects of Soviet domination continued to be enforced?

A) Single-party dominance and military alignment with the Soviet Union
B) Centralized economic planning
C) Total rejection of Catholicism
D) Agricultural collectivization
E) Exporting large amounts of natural resources to the U.S.S.R.

Answer: A

The independent labor movement in Poland that challenged Soviet dominance was called

The independent labor movement in Poland that challenged Soviet dominance was called

A) Comintern.
B) Solidarity.
C) Izvestia.
D) Pravda.
E) the New Independence Movement.







Answer: B

All of the following policies were followed by Soviet-sponsored regimes in eastern Europe EXCEPT

All of the following policies were followed by Soviet-sponsored regimes in eastern Europe EXCEPT

A) attacks on potential political rivals, including the Catholic church.
B) the initiation of five-year plans.
C) the establishment of parliamentary democracies.
D) collectivization of agriculture.
E) development of mass education and propaganda outlets.







Answer: C

Greece, Albania and ________ remained independent of direct Soviet control by 1948.

Greece, Albania and ________ remained independent of direct Soviet control by 1948.

A) Hungary
B) Latvia
C) Yugoslavia
D) Poland
E) Estonia





Answer: C

Which of the following eastern European nations developed an advanced industrialization program, extensive urban culture, and preference for Western models and interaction following World War I?

Which of the following eastern European nations developed an advanced industrialization program, extensive urban culture, and preference for Western models and interaction following World War I?

A) The Soviet Union
B) Czechoslovakia
C) Poland
D) Hungary
E) Bulgaria






Answer: B

Which of the following statements concerning Western culture during the later 20th century is most accurate?

Which of the following statements concerning Western culture during the later 20th century is most accurate?

A) In the fine arts, most artists attempted a return to the classical forms of the Renaissance and the ancient world.
B) More than any other scientific field, the social sciences abandoned the traditional emphasis on consistency in human and social behavior.
C) In the field of physics, modern scientists were unable to go beyond the startling discoveries of the 19th century.
D) Western culture in the 20th century, both in art and in science, became largely relative rather than objective.
E) Romanticism was re-introduced with much success due to the increasing alienation among the intellectual class.

Answer: D

Who wrote The Feminine Mystique?

Who wrote The Feminine Mystique?

A) Betty Friedan
B) Gerda Lerner
C) Jeanne Stemple
D) Sojourner Truth
E) Kate Millet






Answer: A

What work by Simone de Beauvoir signified the beginning of the new feminism in 1949?

What work by Simone de Beauvoir signified the beginning of the new feminism in 1949?

A) Patriarchal Society
B) The Feminine Mystique
C) The Second Sex
D) Mine, Yours, and Ours
E) Sexual Politics






Answer: C

Which of the following was NOT a right achieved by women in the West in the later 20th century?

Which of the following was NOT a right achieved by women in the West in the later 20th century?

A) Voting
B) Family rights
C) Access to higher education
D) Payment equal to males for equal work
E) Access to birth control





Answer: D

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the situation of European peasantry in the social structure of late 20th-century Europe?

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the situation of European peasantry in the social structure of late 20th-century Europe?

A) The European peasantry disappeared following World War II.
B) The European peasantry decreased in size and became increasingly commercialized.
C) The European peasantry continued to remain exclusively rural and rejected 20th-century urban culture.
D) Alone among European social classes, the peasantry remained independent of the state bureaucracies.
E) The European peasantry began to join the military in large numbers as a way of improving their economic status.

Answer: B