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What type of government characterized the Russian state for nearly a thousand years?
Autocracy
Who took power in November 1917 after Tsar Nicholas II abdicated?
Bolsheviks
What did the Russian Communist Party believe in terms of ownership of the means of production?
State ownership
What was the aim of the Russian Communists who took power in November 1917?
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Who led the Soviet Union in 1985 and initiated a program of reform?
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True or false: The Russian state was ruled by a hereditary monarch with limited power by constitutional constraints?
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True or false: The Communist Revolution in Russia occurred during World War II?
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True or false: The Russian Communist Party aimed to spread capitalism throughout the world?
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True or false: Mikhail Gorbachev emphasized the need for greater openness, known as glasnost, in society?
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True or false: The communist regime in the Soviet Union was characterized as democratic?
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