The leading policy-making body in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the __________.

The leading policy-making body in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the __________.
 
  a. Central Committee
  b. Supreme Soviet
  c. Secretariat
  d. Politburo
  e. Duma

 Q. 2

All of the following are fair assessments of Gorbachev's reforms EXCEPT
 
  a. they created fierce opposition within the party.
  b. they were intended to reform the party structure.
  c. they were intended to reform Soviet society.
  d. they were intended to reform the Soviet economy.
  e. they polarized the Soviet political system.

 Q. 3

Which of the following statements best describes the reason Khrushchev was removed from power in 1964?
 
  a. He rejected democratic centralism.
  b. He was not very educated.
  c. He embarrassed the Americans by building missile sites in Cuba.
  d. His reforms threatened the power bases of other communist leaders.
  e. He lost the Kitchen Debate to American Vice President Richard Nixon.

 Q. 4

__________ were forced labor camps located primarily in Siberia?
 
  a. Gulags
  b. Penitentiaries
  c. Five-year camps
  d. Cominterns
  e. Tyurmas

 Q. 5

Stalin was succeeded in office by __________.
 
  a. Lenin
  b. Gorbachev
  c. Khrushchev
  d. Trotsky
  e. Yeltsin

 Q. 6

People who resisted this process were sent to forced labor camps?
 
  a. Glasnost'
  b. Collectivization
  c. Perestroika
  d. Shock therapy
  e. Privatization

 Q. 7

In the 1930s, hundreds of thousands of officials were removed from office, imprisoned, and executed in the
 
  a. collectivization.
  b. campaign for socialism in one country.
  c. purges.
  d. five-year plan.
  e. crackdowns.

 Q. 8

Stalin's economic reforms centered on the planning mechanism of
 
  a. a five-year plan.
  b. democratic centralism.
  c. capitalist encirclement.
  d. perestroika.
  e. Comintern.