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DSST History of the Soviet Union Practice Test
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DSST History of the Soviet Union exam covers Russia under the old regime, the revolutionary period, new economic policy, pre-war Stalinism, World War II, post-war Stalinism, the Khrushchev years, the Brezhnev era, and reform and collapse under Gorbachev. (Formerly, Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union).  The exam contains 100 questions to be answered in 2 hours.  Exam contents, briefly: 1. Russia Under the Old Regime – 10% A. Governing Institutions B. Economics C. Culture and society D. Foreign Affairs E. Revolutionary movements 2A. The First World War B. February revolution C.... Show more
DSST History of the Soviet Union Practice Test
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1. The ultimate objective of the Five-Year Plans was to
2. The objective of the attempted coup in August 1991 was to
3. The Soviet war in Afghanistan can be best described as a
4. Which of the following was NOT one of the Great Reforms of the 1860s?
5. During the October Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks
6. Socialist Realist art under Stalin meant
7. Russia’s performance during the First World War suffered because of a lack of
8. Which of the following was NOT an important motivation for the Soviet collectivization drive in the late 1920s?
9. Khrushchev’s attitude toward the United States is best described as believing
10. What changed in the status of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1941–1945?
11. The “Velvet Revolution” of 1989 took place in
12. The Cultural Revolution of the 1920s involved all of the following EXCEPT:
13. All of the following contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union EXCEPT:
14. Gorbachev’s perestroika in 1987–1990 meant
15. Reagan’s reaction to the Soviet shoot-down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in 1983 was to
16. After promising to invade Japan in August 1945, Stalin
17. The Treaty of Rapallo of 1922 involved mutual diplomatic recognition between the USSR and
18. Which Eastern European nation was most pro-Soviet after 1945?
19. Khrushchev’s “secret speech” of 1956 denounced
20. Brezhnev-era investments in infrastructure
21. The Bolshevik Party evolved from the
22. The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 broke out because
23. What was the effect of the New Economic Policy on Russia’s peasant farmers?
24. The extent of Soviet participation in the Korean War was that it
25. The key objective of Stalin’s GULAG camps was to

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