DSST Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union Test Prep - Question List

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1. In which country did the resistance movement have the greatest impact?
  1. Germany
  2. Yugoslavia
  3. France
  4. Spain
2. Which of the following describes the difference between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks prior to the Russian Revolution?
  1. The Bolsheviks were much less structured.
  2. The Mensheviks rejected the teachings of Lenin.
  3. The leadership of the Mensheviks was more open.
  4. The Bolsheviks represented a very small minority.
  5. The Mensheviks wanted to reinstate the Czar.
3. The New Economic Policy developed in the Soviet Union between 1921 and 1927 had what net effect on the economy?
  1. It was a period of unprecedented growth.
  2. There was no discernible change from the war-era economy.
  3. It resolved some issues from the war but failed to make significant progress.
  4. It became the model for Soviet economics throughout the 20th century.
  5. It required too much foreign capital to be successful.
4. In the Civil War that followed the Russian Revolution, the White Russians were comprised of which of the following groups?
  1. Traditional Marxist Communists
  2. Followers of Trotsky
  3. Rural peasants
  4. Industrialists who had lost property
  5. The disillusioned working class
5.

Which city was the site of the worst siege not only of the World War II era, but of the entire modern era?

  1. Berlin
  2. Leningrad
  3. Stalingrad
  4. Dresden

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