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1
By the time of the Soviet Union's breakup, ethnic Russians accounted approximately for what percentage of its total population?
A)50%
B)30%
C)80%
D)98%
2
Russian Slavophiles held that
A)Russia's development depended on the adoption of Western standards and norms.
B)Russia should become capitalist.
C)Russia's culture is unique and superior to Western culture.
D)Russia should unite with Czech Republic.
3
Who led the Soviet Union through World War II?
A)Lenin
B)Khrushchev
C)Stalin
D)Trotsky
4
Soviet agriculture malfunctioned because
A)the Soviet Union didn't have an adequate amount of fertile land.
B)agriculture is an economic activity least compatible with tenets of central planning.
C)the Soviet Union did not invest in agriculture.
D)the Soviet Union preferred to import food.
5
Domestic achievements of Perestroika accelerated the breakup of the USSR because
A)it appeared that the country could not stay together unless firm centralized control existed.
B)of the environmental disasters.
C)of worsening relations between Russia and Kazakhstan.
D)Gorbachev was a staunch anti-Communist.
6
The loans-for-shares scheme
A)was a scheme used to privatize Russian agriculture.
B)was a repressive campaign of the Russian government.
C)ensured equal distribution of industrial assets among the interested buyers.
D)gave rise to the class of Russian oligarchs.
7
The privatization of industry in Russia
A)was socially equitable.
B)did not occur.
C)boosted social stratification.
D)precluded economic growth.
8
Market reform in Russian agriculture
A)did not occur.
B)ensured the replacement of most collective farms with independent family farms.
C)has so far boosted archaic household farms that produce half of the entire agricultural output.
D)has been an overwhelming success.
9
Corruption in today's Russia
A)is less widespread than under the Soviet rule.
B)is more widespread than under the Soviet rule.
C)has not changed much since the breakup of the USSR.
D)is not a major problem.
10
The State Duma is
A)the executive arm of Russia's government.
B)the lower house of Russia's parliament.
C)the upper house of Russia's parliament.
D)a political party.
11
Russians accounted for 80% of the Soviet Union's population.
A)True
B)False
12
Gorbachev's Perestroika accelerated the demise of the former Soviet Union.
A)True
B)False
13
Private family farms have become the dominant producers of food in Russia.
A)True
B)False
14
Corruption is a serious problem in Russia.
A)True
B)False
15
Economic decline accompanied the rise of authoritarianism under President Putin.
A)True
B)False
16
Yeltsin won the 1996 election by such a huge margin that no runoff election was needed.
A)True
B)False
17
Twenty-five million ethnic Russians lived in the Soviet republics other than the Russian Federation at the time of the Soviet Union's breakup.
A)True
B)False
18
Boris Yeltsin resigned as President of Russia before the expiration of his second term.
A)True
B)False
19
Putin won the 2004 elections in a landslide.
A)True
B)False
20
Due to patriotic feelings draft-dodging is rare in Russia.
A)True
B)False





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