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Identify and locate on a map the principal geographic features of the
Soviet Union. (I)
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| 2.
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Describe, in general terms, the history of czarist Russia in the last
decades of the 19th century. (II)
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| 3.
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Compare and contrast the variants of Marxism, with specific reference
to Germany and Russia before World War I. (II)
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List and explain the forces which led to the revolutions of 1905 and
1917. (II)
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List the reasons which led to the creation of the New Economic Policy
(NEP). (III)
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Compare and contrast the personalities and policies of Stalin and
Trotsky, with specific reference to the political climate of the early
1920s. (III)
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Describe Stalin's industrialization policy in the late 1920s and early
1930s, with specific reference to the party purges. (III)
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List the salient characteristics that made up Stalin's cultural and
foreign policy prior to World War II. (III)
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Describe the major forces in World War II that contributed to Stalin's
post WWII domestic and foreign policy. (IV)
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Compare and contrast the Khruschev and Brezhnev eras. (V)
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List and explain the forces that led to the rise of Gorbechev and the
subsequent coup. (V)
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