EXAMINATION STUDY SHEETS

Each exam will consist of:

1) An essay section in which you are called upon to write one essay from a field of three questions based upon lectures and readings. (50 exam points).

2) A multiple choice section, consisting of ten multiple-choice questions each based upon quotations taken from the web readings as well as upon the topics and identification items listed below from the lectures and the readings. (20 exam points)

3)  A matching geography section, consisting of three maps, in which you are called upn to match ten numbered place names with ten lettered locations on each map. (30 exam points)

FIRST EXAMINATION

GENERAL TOPICS FOR THE FIRST EXAMINATION:

• 1) The Peoples of the Steppe and Ancient Russia
• 2) The Origins of the Kievan Rus'.
• 3) State and Society of the Kievan Rus'.
• 4) Religion and Culture of the Kievan Rus'.
• 5) The East Slavic Principalities Under Foreign Rule.
• 6) Religion/Culture Under Foreign Rule.
• 7) The Rise of Muscovy.

ITEMS FOR THE OBJECTIVE SECTIONS OF THE FIRST EXAMINATION:
Cimmerians 		Boyar 			Kazan			Tsar 	

Scythians 		Vladimir 		Giray-Khans  		Avtokrat 	

Sarmatians 		Yaroslav 		Crimea 			Iurii Dolgoruki

Cherson 		Galicia/Volhynia 	Ukraine 		Ivan Kalita 

Goths			Vladimir/Suzdal 	kontsy (konets)		Moscow 	

Khazars 		Kniaz Alexander Nevsky 	Dmitrii Donskoi 	Brest-Litovsk

Bulgars 		Smerdy			Teutonic Knights 	Kremlin 

Slavs 			Veche 			Livonian Knights 	Yarlyk 	

Varangians 		Appanage 		Hansa 			Afanasy Nikitin

Rus (Ruotsi) 		Druzhina 		Roman of Volhynia 	Domostroy 

Novgorod 		Old Church Slavonic	Ruthenia 		Feofan Grek 

Kiev 			Mongols  		Belorussia 		Andrei Rublev 	

Primary Chronicle 	Pechenegs 		Holy Fools 		Ivan III 

Constantine 		Polovtsi/Kumans 	Sergius of Radonezh 	Zoe (Sophia) 

Porphyrogenitus 	Yasa 			Stephan of Perm 	Palaeologos 
Normanist 		Tatars 			Non-Possessors 		Gosudar 

Controversy 		Golden Horde 		Hesychasm 		prikazi		

Rurik 			Kuriltay 		Nilus of Sora 		Ivan IV Grozny	

Oleg 			Saray 			Third Rome 		diaks

Sviatoslav 		Astrakhan		Maxim Grek 		oprichnina

STUDY MAPS FOR THE FIRST EXAMINATION:

• Map#1--Geography of Russia and Eurasia.

• Map#2--Kievan Rus' and the World, ca 1100.

• Map#3--Mongol Asia, ca. 1300.

SECOND EXAMINATION

GENERAL TOPICS FOR THE SECOND EXAMINATION:

• 1) The Rise of Muscovy.
• 2) Ivan the Terrible.
• 3) Time of Troubles and the Romanov Recovery.
• 4) Muscovite Expansion.
• 5) Society & Culture of Muscovy.
• 6) Peter the Great and the Westernization of Russia.
• 7) The Russian Empire in the 18th Century--The Court and Catherine II.
• 8) Russia and Europe in the Reign of Alexander I.

ITEMS FOR THE OBJECTIVE SECTIONS OF THE SECOND EXAMINATION:

Fyodor			Nerchinsk 		Elizabeth 		Akademiia Nauk 		

Sigismund		Michael Romanov 	Peter III 		Michael Lomonosov 	

Boris Godunov		Aleksii Romanov 	Seven Years War 	A. Radishchev 		

Pseudo-Dmitrii		Sophia Romanova 	Emelian Pugachev 	Paul I

Don Cossacks		Preobrazhenskoe 	Kucuk Kainarci 		Michael Speransky 	

Zaporozhians		Grand Embassy 		Thadeus Kocsiusko 	Congress Poland 	

Ataman Yermak		Guards Regiments 	Grigorii Potemkin 	Fedor Kuzmich 		

Promyshlennik		Baltic Barons 		Oberprocurator 		Austerlitz 		

Bohdan Khmelnitsky	Aleksei 		Old Believers 		Constantine Pavlovich	

Obrok/Barschina		Catherine I 		Cadet Corps 		Tilsit 			
Zealots/Raskolniks	Mazeppa			Cypher Schools 		Kutuzov 		

Kievan Academy		Great Northern War	Catherine II		Philike Hetaireia 	

Boris Godunov		Azov			Greek Project		Holy Alliance 		

Juliana Lazarevskaia	Charles	XII		Crimea			Eastern Question 	

Nikon			Menshikov		Ushakov			Capodistria		

STUDY MAPS FOR THE SECOND EXAMINATION:

• Map#4--Russian Expansion in Eurasia.
• Map#5--Russian Expansion in Europe and the Near East, 1725-1793.
• Map#6--Russian Expansion in the Caucasus.

THIRD EXAMINATION

GENERAL TOPICS FOR THE THIRD EXAMINATION:

• 1) Russia and Europe in the Reign of Nicholas I.
• 2) Russian Reform and Reaction in the Mid-19th Century--Alexander II.
• 3) Revolution and Repression in Late 19th Century Russia.
• 4) The Industrial Revolution and Agrarian Crisis in 19th Century Russia.
• 5) Imperial and Foreign Affairs in the 19th Century.
• 6) The Development oF Russian Culture in the 19th Century.
• 7) Russian Opposition, Revolution, and Parliamentarianism, 1905-1914.
• 8) Russia and the First World War.

ITEMS FOR THE OBJECTIVE SECTIONS OF THE THIRD EXAMINATION:				 					

Decembrists 		narodniks		Duma Banks 		Battleship Potemkin

Third Section 		Populism		Baku			Octobrist Party	

Adrianople 		Privislianskii 		profsoiuzy 		Constitutional 

Unkiar Iskellessi 	San Stephano 		Pavel Miliukov 		Democrats 

Eastern Question 	Dreikaisarbund 		Georgyi Plekhanov 	Socialist (S.R.'s)

Pale of Settlement 	Turkestan 		Port Arthur 		Revolutionaries

pogroms 		Alaska 			Tsushima 		Social Democrats

Emancipation 		Shamil 			Georgyi Gapon 		Mensheviks

mir 			Baku 			Potemkin		Bolsheviks

intelligentsiia 	Trans-Siberian RR 	Octobrist Party		Vladimir Lenin

slavophils 		Amur 			Constitutional 		zapros

westernizers 		Pan-Slavism 		Democrats 		Trudov'ki

Chaadayev 		Pobedonostsev 		Socialist (S.R.'s)	Trans-Siberian RR

Kirievskii 		Turgenev 		Revolutionaries		Serbia

Aksakov 		Dostoyevskii 		Social Democrats	Sergei Witte

Constantine 		Tolstoy 		Mensheviks		Nikolai Nikolaevich

Nikolayevich 		Chekhov 		Bolsheviks		Grigorii Rasputin

Alexander II 		Tschaikovsky 		Vladimir Lenin		Tannenberg

zemstvo 		Mendeleyev 		zapros			Carpathians

town duma 		Lobachevsky 		Trudov'ki		Caucasus Front

V Narod			Rimski-Korsakov 	Petr' A. Stolypin	Roman Dmowski

STUDY MAPS FOR THE THIRD EXAMINATION:

• Map#7--Russian and British Expansion in Central Asia, 1865-1907
• Map#8--Imperial Russia in 1914
• Map#9--Russia in the Balkans and Southeastern Europe.

FOURTH EXAMINATION

GENERAL TOPICS FOR THE FOURTH EXAMINATION:

1) The 1917 Revolutions.
2) The Russian Civil War.
3)  The New Economic Policy and Changes Under Lenin.
4) The Rise of Stalin and the Five year Plans.
5) The Purges and the Terror.
6) Soviet Foreign Policy, 1918-1941.
7) The Great Fatherland War.
8) Soviet Culture Under Lenin and Stalin.

ITEMS FOR THE OBJECTIVE SECTIONS OF THE FOURTH EXAMINATION:

February Revolution	Provisional Govt.      Commisariats	       Trotskyists	       Leningrad
Commissar               General Secretary      Comintern               Mikhail Tuchachevskii   Stalingrad
Leon Trotsky            Josif Stalin           Zinoviev                International Brigades  Kursk
Sovnarkom               Collectivization       Chicherin               Munich                  Teheran
CHEKA                   Kulaks                 Maxim Litvinov          Joachim Ribbentrop      Warsaw Rising
War Communism           Kolkhoz                Viacheslav Molotov      Winter War              Yalta
New Economic Policy     Sovlhoz                Popular Front           Untermenschen           Potsdam
Transcaucasian S. S. R. MTS                    Non-Agression Pacts     Ostarbeiter             Elder Brother
R.S.F.S.R.              NKVD                   Sergei Ordzhonihidze    Barbarossa              collaboration
Patriarch Tikhon        GPU                    Lavrenti Beria          T-34                    Sovietization
Nikolai Bukharin        OGPU                   Pavel Morozov           Giorgyi Zhukov          Berlin Airlift
Feliks Derzhinsky       Sergei Kirov           show trials             Moscow                  Tito-Stalin Split
Lev Kamenev             Zhdanovshchina         Gulag                   Murmansk                Korea
Alexandra Kollontai     Leningrad              Forced Labor            Siberia                 Kars
Union Republics         Militant Godless       Purges                  Caucasus                Azerbaijan
Autonomous Republics    Yezhovshchina          Stakhanovites           Second front            Doctor's Plot

STUDY MAPS FOR THE FOURTH EXAMINATION

Map# 10--Russia and the First World War

Map#11--The Soviet Union and Europe, 1918-1939

Map#12--The Soviet Union in the Second World War

FIFTH EXAMINATION

GENERAL TOPICS FOR THE FIFTH EXAMINATION:

1) The Onset of the Cold War and the Last Years of Stalin.
2)The Khrushchev Era and Destalinization.
3) The Brezhnev Era and Stagnation.
4) Cold War and Detente.
5)  The Gorbachev Era: Glastnost' and Pereistroika.
6)  The Gorbachev Era:  The Nationality Question.
7)  The Gorbachev Era:  Foreign Policy.
8)  Russia and the C.I.S., 1991-2004

ITEMS FOR THE OBJECTIVE SECTIONS OF THE FIFTH EXAMINATION:
Troika                  Polycentrism        samizdat                Yuri Andropov           Armenia
Lavrentii Beria         Sputnik             tamizdat                Konstantin Chernenko    Azerbaijan
Viacheslav Molotov      The Thaw            Andrei Sinyavskii       Mikhail Gorbachev       Belorus'
Nikolai Bulganin        A. Solzhenitzyn     Iuri Daniel             Glastnost'              Estonia
Georgyi Malenkov        Sino-Soviet Split   Andrei Sakharov         Pereistroika            Georgia
Nikita Khrushchev       Berlin Wall         Detente                 August Coup             Kazakkstan
Izvestiia               Cuban  Crisis       SALT                    Boris Yeltsin           Kirghizstan
Pravda                  Boris Pasternak     Helsinki Accords        Aleksandr Yakovlev      Latvia
German State Treaty     KGB                 Prague Spring           Nalevo                  Lithuania
Warsaw Pact             Anastas Mikoyan     Solidarity              Alekasander Men         Moldova
20th Party Congress     Andrei Gromyko      Brezhnev Doctrine       Ruslan Khasbulatov      Russian Federation
Destalinization         Leonid Brezhnev     Non-Aligned Movement    Edvard Shevardnadze     Tadjikstan
Wladislaw Gomulka       Aleksei Kosygin     Lech Walesa             Dmitri Volkogonov       Turkmenistan
Imre Nagy               Nikolai Podgornyi   Wojtech Jaruzelski      Pamyat                  Ukraine
Monolithism             Mikhail Suslov      Afghanistan             Vladimir Zhirinovsky    Chechnya
Titoism                 nalevo              personal computer       Organized Crime         Tataristan
CMEA (Comecon)          nomenclatura        fax machine             Abkhazia                Crimea

STUDY MAPS FOR THE FIFTH EXAMINATION:

• Map #13--The Soviet Union and Europe, 1945-1949
• Map#14--The Soviet Union and World Communism, 1970-1985
• Map#15--The Union of Sovet Socialist Republics:  Union and Autonomus Republics (EXTRA CREDIT)
• Map#16--The Former Soviet Union

EVALUATION FOR EACH EXAMINATION
EVALUATION CRITERIA

1. Pertinance. Does the essay directly address the question? Is there a significant effort to answer the question? (10 points).

2. Analysis. Is the focus of the essay maintained? Are the points or topics clearly conceived, presented and discussed? (10 points).

3. Content. Is the information presented to subtantiate points and topics accurate and clear? Do the facts contribute evidence to the arguments presented? (10 points).

4. Organization. Is the essay composed in a clear and logical manner? Is there an introductory statement, a body of evidence, and a conclusion? (10 points).

5. Mechanics. Are the fundamentals of paragraphing, sentence structure, grammar, spelling, and punctuation followed? (10 points).

SAMPLE SCORE-SHEET FOR EACH OF THE EXAMINATIONS:

CRITERION #1---Pertinance_____out of 10 points

CRITERION #2----Analysis_____out of 10 points

CRITERION #3-----Content_____out of 10 points

CRITERION #4-Organization____out of 10 points

CRITERION #5---Mechanics____out of 10 points

TOTAL:________out of 50------------EXAMINATION GRADE:_________