AP World- Exam Questions-chapter 30
1) When and why did Russia withdraw from WW I?
2) Why is Soviet history so important in World History?
3) What two great powers emerged after WW II?
4) In what time period did the Soviet Union achieve and maintain great power?
5) What Russian geographical theme continued in the post revolutionary decades?
6) What has been the key theme in Russian history since 1985?
7) In what city did the Russian Revolution begin?
8) What were soviets?
9) Describe the government in the first 8 months of the revolution in terms of political philosophy
10) Who was Kerensky?
11) What caused the initial revolutionary government to fail?
12) What group succeeded the initial revolutionary government?
13) What was Lenin’s solution to the problem of Russia’s involvement in the war?
14) What was the Council of the People’s Commissars?
15) Why might you say the Bolsheviks stole power?
16) How did Europe respond to the Russian revolution?
17) Which groups participated in the Russian civil war?
18) Who was the first head of the red army?
19) What was the NEP?
20) How did elections to the Supreme Soviet work?
21) How did Stalin’s communism differ from Lenin’s communism?
22) What was the Comintern?
23) Who were the Kulaks?
24) What was collectivization?
25) What happened as a result of Stalin’s agricultural policies?
26) What were 5 year plans?
27)Describe Czechoslovakia after WW I
28) Which nations remained independent of direct Soviet control in Eastern Europe as of 1948?
29) What were Soviet policies toward their Eastern European regimes?
30) How did the Soviet Union treat Eastern European nations following Stalin’s death?
31) What was Solidarity?
32) What was the Politburo?
33) Describe Soviet bureaucracy under Stalin
34) What was the status of the Orthodox church under Stalin?
35) What was socialist realism?
36) What was Solzhenitsyn famous for?
37) What were typical characteristics of the Russian Economy?
38) What were sources of pressure on the Soviet Family?
39) How did social organization in the Soviet Union come to resemble that in the West?
40) What was Russians population rate by the 1970s?
41) Describe women in Russian industrialized society?
42) How did the Soviet government structure change after Stalin’s death?
43) Who took primary power in Russia in 1956?
44) What was Sputnik?
45) Describe Soviet military and foreign policy after Stalin’s death
46) What did Gorbachev do?
47) What was Perestroika?
48) How did Romania change from its communist government?