ESSAY SECTION
YOU WILL WRITE A 50 POINT ESSAY ON FOLOWING THEMS:
1) Compare and contrast Stalin as depicted in Gellately and Mao as depicted in Jung & Halliday. What did these two leaders have in common in their strategies for acquiring power and in their methods of governing once they had power? In assessing their legacies, what would you say was the most consequential difference between these two leaders?
2) Discuss the origins and consequences of the Hitler-Stalin Pact as discussed in both Gellately and Jung & Halliday. Why did Stalin seek this pact with Hitler and what were its consequences, not only for Europe but for the world? How did prominent Communists in China react to the Hitler-Stalin Pact, and what implications did Stalin’s foreign policy after 1939 have for the conflict between Japan and China?
ID SECTION: YOU WILL WRITE ON THOSE TERMS, IDENTIFYING EACH AND EXPLAINING ITS HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE. EACH ANSWER WILL BE WORTH 10 POINTS.
Romanov Dynasty
Alexander II
People’s Will
Alexander III
Nicholas II
Intelligentsia
V. I. Lenin
“What is to be Done?”
Russo-Japanese War
October Manifesto
Alexander Kerensky
Leon Trotsky
Kulak
Cheka
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
New Economic Policy (NEP)
Kronstadt Rebellion
Joseph Stalin
Lenin’s Testament
Five-Year Plans
collectivization
Famine in Ukraine
Totalitarianism
Khrushchev
Cuban Missile Crisis
Detente
Helsinki Accords
Brezhnev
Gorbachev
glasnost
“civil society”
Yeltsin
perestroika
August coup
shock therapy
FSB
Chechnya
Putin
Crimea
Mandate of heaven
Examination system
Qing Dynasty
Treaty of Nanjing
Hong Xiuquan
Sino-Japanese War of 1895
Boxer Rebellion
Cixi (a.k.a. The Empress Dowager)
1911 Revolution
May 4th Movement
Sun Yatsen (a.k.a. Sun Zhongshan)
Guomindang
Chen Duxiu
Northern Expedition
CCP
Long March
Mao Zedong
Hundred Flowers Campaign
Great Leap Forward
Peng Dehuai
Liu Shaoqi
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Wang Rongfen
Lin Biao
Nixon in China
Jiang Qing
Deng Xiaoping
Special Economic Zones
Wei Jingsheng
Tiananmen Square, 1989
Xi Jinping
Belt & Road Project
Taiwan
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