Quiz on Chap 22, World Communism

  
1. Of the communist regimes that came to power in North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba, and Afghanistan, which had achieved the level of industrialization that Karl Marx believed necessary for communism?
a. North Korea  b. Cuba  c. Afghanistan  d. None

2. How did Lenin and the Bolsheviks take power in 1917?
a. Through democratic elections
b. Through an overnight coup in the capital
c. By gradually infiltrating the provisional government
d. By leading a massive popular uprising throughout the empire

3. How did the Chinese Communist Party adapt its ideology and strategy during its long struggle to power?
a. It focused solely on the cities and the working class.
b. It focused solely on assassinating top Japanese and Guomindang leaders.
c. It focused on returning to traditional Confucian values of social hierarchy and patriarchy.
d. It focused on creating peasant communism and rural guerilla warfare.

4. Which of the following was NOT a way in which the Chinese Communists under Mao Zedong gained the widespread support of the peasantry?
a. By promising the end of the rural way of life
b. By offering protection against Japanese and Nationalist atrocities
c. By seizing land from landlords and distributing it to peasants
d. By teaching literacy to adults and mobilizing women

5. Which of the following best describes the initial policies of the Soviet and Chinese Communist Parties toward women after taking power?
a. They forced women to obey their husbands.
b. They talked about gender equality, but it was only lip service.
c. They achieved far-reaching freedom for women.
d. They paid no attention to women's issues at all.

6. How did the Bolshevik efforts at land redistribution compare with Chinese Communist efforts at land redistribution?
a. The Bolsheviks found the task much more difficult than the Chinese Communists.
b. Both the Bolsheviks and the Chinese Communists found the task difficult.
c. Both the Bolsheviks and the Chinese Communists found the task quite easy.
d. The Bolsheviks found the task much easier than the Chinese Communists.

7. What happened to communist commitment to social and gender equality in Stalin’s USSR?
a. Those values were strictly enforced throughout the country.
b. Those values were often set aside in favor of industrial development and state power.
c. Those values were explicitly abandoned in favor of a return to capitalism.
d. Those values led to a gradual democratization of the Communist Party.

8. Who, of the following, was NOT a victim of the "Terror" or "Great Purge" in the USSR in the 1930s?
a. The original Bolshevik revolutionaries
b. Communist Party officials
c. Those who carried out the arrests and killings in the purges
d. Stalin himself

9. What was the end result of Mao's two great campaigns, the "Great Leap Forward" and the "Cultural Revolution"?
a. The replacement of the communist party as the governing body in the country by the military
b. The death and ruin of tens of millions and the widespread discrediting of communism
c. China’s parity with the United States in terms of industrial production
d. More democracy and prosperity for Chinese citizens

10. Which one of the following is NOT part of Karl Marx’s theory of history?
a. Communism is the final stage of historical development
b. Communism will achieve social equality
c. Private property will be eliminated
d. Socialism is ultimate goal of communism.

11.What does Strayer say is “one of history’s strange twists”?
a. The great revolutions of the 20th Century too place in agrarian, not industrialized societies.
b. Stalin and MaoZedong both believed in God but led godless revolutions
c. That what slowed down the rapid growth of communism was its success at self-renunciation.
d. None of these

12. Which of the following was NOT a similarity shared by the French, Russian and Chinese revolutions?
a. they shared a vision of a future without the old ruling classes.
b. they believed a better world could come from rightly directed human actions
c. they involved peasant upheavals and educated leaders in the cities.
d. All of these are similarities.

13. Which is the correct order in Russia?
a. The Tsar leaves the throne – the Provisional Government – Lenin and the Bolsheviks in power
b. The Provisional Government – the Tsar leaves the throne – Lenin and the Bolsheviks in power
c. Lenin and the Bolsheviks in power – the Tsar leaves the throne – the Provisional Government
d. The Tsar leaves the throne – Lenin and the Bolsheviks in power – the Provisional Government

14. How did communism come to Eastern Europe?
a. Poland, East Germany, Hungary, etc. were inspired by the successes of the Bolsheviks and followed the Bolshevik pattern.
b. Poland, East Germany, Hungary, etc. wanted the protection of the Soviet Union so accepted communism to gain the Warsaw Pact alliance.
c. Poland, East Germany, Hungary, etc. were largely forced on them by Soviet might.
d. None of these

MATCH the leaders with their country or movement
Use for #15-17: a. Mao Zedong b. Stalin c. Marx d. Chiang Kai-shek e. Enlai-tolia

15. China
16. USSR
17. Guomindang

Use for #18-21: a. CCP b. the Nationalist Party in China c. Bolsheviks d. Tsarists

18. Japan’s invasion of China destroyed its control over much of China
19. Urged Russian withdrawal from World War II.
20. Its followers fled to Taiwan in 1949.
21. In 1949 it swept to victory in China.

Use for #22-25: a. 1917 b. 1920s – 1930s c. 1950s – 1960s d. 1949

22. Bolshevik Revolution
23. Mao’s construction of a socialist society
24. Stalin’s construction of a socialist society.
25. Communist takeover of China.

26. Compare the response of the leaders of the Soviet and Chinese communists to the social outcomes they both created: rapid urbanization, exploitation of the countryside to provide for modern industry in the cities, and the growth of a privileged bureaucratic and technological elite intent on pursuing their own careers. (Your response should focus on the leaders’ responses, not so much on the common social outcomes…)