Reading Quiz #6: Sheila Fitzpatrick's The Russian Revolution 1. What

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Reading Quiz #6: Sheila Fitzpatrick's The Russian Revolution. Your TYPED, completed quiz must be turned in at the beginning of class on NOVEMBER 6th.
Reading  Quiz  #6:  Sheila  Fitzpatrick’s  The  Russian  Revolution     Your TYPED, completed quiz must be turned in at the beginning of class on NOVEMBER 6th For  complete  guidelines  regarding  this  assignment,  see  the  course  homepage     Instructions:   Please  respond  to  the  following  ten  (10)  questions.  Most  simply  require  you  to  identify  a  item   (person,  event,  concept,  etc.)  mentioned  in  the  text  or  lecture.  Other  questions  require  slightly  longer   responses  –  though  rarely  more  than  2-­‐3  sentences.       NOTE:  Each  response  MUST  include  the  page  number(s)  where  the  item/answer  was  first   addressed  in  the  book.  Responses  lacking  citations  will  be  awarded  zero  ("0")  points.  

    1.  What  is  “surplus  scarcity?”  According  to  Prof.  Palmer,  how  has  it  affected  Russia’s  history   and  development?       2.  What  major  step  was  gradually  taken  by  medieval  and  early  modern  Russian  state   leaders  to  ensure  an  adequate  labor  force?       3.  Name  of  the  Minister  of  Finance  in  the  1890s  who  tried  to  rally  support  among  technical   specialists  and  businessmen  for  the  autocracy’s  modernization  drive.       4.    This  publication  by  Vladimir  Lenin  argued  for  the  importance  of  strict  discipline,   centralization,  and  ideological  purity  among  Marxist  party  members.       5.  Name  of  the  two  party  members  who  voiced  objection  to  Lenin’s  call  for  a  Bolshevik-­‐led   insurrection  in  October  1917.       6.  What  general  attitude  did  artists  and  intellectuals  have  c.  1917  regarding  the  relationship   between  art  and  revolution?       7.  What,  according  to  Fitzpatrick,  was  the  “worst  blow”  suffered  by  the  early  Bolshevik   regime?       8.  How  does  Fitzpatrick  characterize  the  Bolsheviks’  approach  to  the  peasantry  beginning  in   1921?     9.  Which  favored  social  group  reaped  the  benefits  of  the  First  Five-­‐Year  Plan?       10.  What  attribute,  according  to  a  letter  sent  out  by  the  Communist  Party  Central   Committee  in  July  1936,  was  essential  for  every  Party  member  to  possess?