Russia Comparative Government

What is/was the most important communist state throughout history?

• Russia

• China

• The United States of America

• Spain

Where (geographically) were/are most communist nations located?

• Asia

• Africa

• The Americas

• Australia

What was the goal of communism, according to Marx?

• the oppression of the working class

• a more equal and fair society

• making everybody rich

• making everybody poor

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What did Marx predict for the future?

• The poor would all be killed by the rich

• The poor would realize that they had no power

• The workers would rise up and overthrow the Capitalist system

• education and personal development would bring about a peaceful transformation

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Which leader based his rule on the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?

• Neville Chamberlain

• Adolf Hitler

• Vladimir Lenin

• Chiang Kai-shek

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Stalin mainly used propaganda to 

• promote capitalism
• increase support for communism and himself
• wage a war against illiteracy
• wage a war against smallpox 

The leader you would most identify with de-Stalinization was

• Kennedy
• Khrushchev 
• Pasternak 
• Brezhnev

Who was the first directly elected president of Russia?

• Boris Yeltsin

• Vladimir Putin

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Nikita Krushchev

What was Yeltsin's "shock therapy" plan?

• a plan to abruptly move to free market economics

• a plan to quickly build up nuclear armaments

• a plant to quickly reorganize communism

• a plan to abruptly halt public elections

Who rules/is in charge of Russia?

• Viking Rurik

• Vladimir Putin

• Thomas Jefferson

• King Nick