Communism: Karl Marx to Joseph Stalin

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What was the defining struggle of the 20th century according to the text?

  • The class struggle emphasized by Karl Marx
  • The tensions between the United States and the U.S.S.R.
  • The rise of the Soviet Union
  • The competition between communism and capitalism in the Cold War (correct)

Who proposed the ideology of communism in the Communist Manifesto of 1848?

  • Karl Marx (correct)
  • Friedrich Engels
  • Vladimir Lenin
  • Joseph Stalin

Which major resources does communism propose the state should own?

  • Energy sources
  • Education and agriculture (correct)
  • Technology companies
  • Labor unions

What did Karl Marx emphasize in every historical society according to the Communist Manifesto?

<p>Dangerous instability created by capitalism (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Under communism, how are the benefits of labor supposed to be shared?

<p>Equally among everyone in society (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What led to the beginning of the Cold War according to the text?

<p>Tensions at the end of World War II between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one aspect that the Communist Manifesto did NOT provide?

<p>Strategies for economic growth in a communist system (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How did Marx's writings influence industrial workers in Europe before any government tested his theories?

<p>By creating an international labor movement (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What event marked the beginning of the Russian Revolution in 1917?

<p>Protest led by factory workers (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How did the Russian army react to the protest that led to the start of the Russian Revolution?

<p>They joined the protesters in solidarity (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What action did Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik party take in October 1917 during the Russian Revolution?

<p>Implemented communist practices based on Marx's ideology (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How did the new urban working class across Europe react to their living conditions in relation to the bourgeois class as described in the text?

<p>Fed up with their squalor compared to the luxury of the bourgeois (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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