Sanderson and Alderson suggest that the recent political upheavals in Eastern Europe were:
a. people's revolutions begun in order to introduce democracy
b. revolutions from above, i.e., revolutions initiated by a segment of the political
elite
c. possible because the Soviet Union relaxed its political and military domination of
Eastern Europe
d. all of these
Question 2Sanderson and Alderson argue that the Communist states of Eastern Europe should not be referred to as Marxist. This is because these societies
a. failed to abolish alienated labor
b. failed to create a classless society
c. failed to produce a highly democratic state
d. two of these
e. all of these
Question 3Randall Collins and David Waller attribute the collapse of Communism to
a. a state breakdown rooted in the overextension of the Soviet empire
b. the delegitimation of the Communist state
c. the moral decadence and decay of the Communist system
d. the will of the masses for a different kind of social and economic system
Question 4What is a reason for involuntary migration?
a. Removal from land by a majority group
b. Avoid alienation from families
c. Escape political persecution
d. Attain religious freedom
Question 5The rule of _____________ declares that a person must marry within his/her group.
a. homogeneity
b. homogenous
c. endogamy
d. endogenous
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