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Understanding Communism: A Quiz on Key Concepts and Historical Context

This quiz tests your knowledge on key concepts and historical aspects of communism, including economic theories, significant figures, and ideological differences.

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1 Economic criticisms of communal and/or government property are described under ________.

2 In this regard, it is similar to ________, but differs in that, for example, Luxemburgists don't reject elections by principle.

3 The ruling stratum of the Soviet Union was held to be a bureaucratic ________, but not a new ruling class, despite their political control.

4 The Bolshevik government was hostile to nationalism, especially to ________, the 'Great Russian chauvinism', as an obstacle to establishing the proletarian dictatorship.

5 In the ________, societies ruled by Communist Parties are distinct for their single party control and their socialist economic bases.

6 Marx, Karl and ________, 'Communist Manifesto', (Mass Market Paperback - REPRINT), Signet Classics, 1998, ISBN 978-0-451-52710-3

7 Christian communists may or may not agree with various parts of ________.

8 [6] Marx here follows ________ in conceiving freedom not merely as an absence of restraints but as action with content.

9 After Mao's death and his replacement by ________, the international Maoist movement diverged.

10 It was heralded as a possibility of building communism via a massive program of ________ and collectivization.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Nepalese communist leader Ruplal Bishvakarma, who introduced the current Maoist leader Prachandra to militant politics in the 1970s, opposed Prachandra's plans for an armed uprising in 1994.
  • the Norwegian communist politician Erling Folkvord (pictured) is well-known for his work as a corruption watchdog.
  • the Filipino communist guerrilla commander Guillermo Capadocia had worked as a chef and a waiter during his youth.
  • the Romanian Communist ideologue Iosif Chişinevschi distanced himself from his Jewish origins and publicly supported the persecution of Jews.
  • the Moscow Pantheon (proposal pictured) was a Soviet project to construct a monumental memorial tomb for prominent Communist figures.
  • only two of the seven non-Soviet ruling Communist political parties in the Eastern Bloc used the word "Communist" in their names when they were first established.
  • in neutral Sweden during World War II, the communist newspapers Ny Dag and Sydsvenska Kuriren were banned from being carried on trains and public buses.
  • in his first TV series, Crusader (CBS, 1955–1956), Brian Keith portrayed fictional journalist Matt Anders, who during the Cold War liberates oppressed people from communism.
  • it has often been claimed that the 1948 Southeast Asian Youth Conference, held in Calcutta, marked the starting point for various armed communist insurgencies in different Asian countries.
  • the Russian Communist Varvara Yakovleva was a member of the board of the Secret Police and led food inspections that requisitioned food as a punitive measure.
  • the taekwondo form Ko-Dang was named after Korean nationalist Cho Man-sik, imprisoned and executed for his opposition to Kim Il-sung's communists.
  • though communism was created by an atheist, communism and religion have not always had a hostile relationship.
  • units in LA's Avenel Cooperative Housing Project, reportedly built as "a cooperative living experiment for a group of communists", were selling for US$300,000 in 2002.
  • when Romanian diplomat Mihail Fărcăşanu published in the newspaper a translation of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, the communist press called Fărcăşanu a fascist.
  • when Indrajit Gupta, a Communist, became India's Union Minister for Home Affairs in 1996, he became head of a ministry "which once policed the Commies".
  • the pro-communist 1950 May Day speech given by the Trade Union Congress president Thakin Lwin revealed a major split in the Burma Socialist Party.
  • the government of Burmese Prime Minister U Nu was saved from a parliamentary no confidence vote in June 1957 by the communist Burma Workers and Peasants Party.
  • the flags of the Yugoslav Socialist Republics were the old flags of the constituent nations, with a red star added to represent communism.
  • the United Public Workers of America was expelled from the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1950 for being communist-controlled, and its president convicted of contempt of Congress.
  • the first film to take advantage of the relaxation of communism in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s was The Sun in a Net.
  • in 1954, the Federal Communications Commission sought to force union attorney Edward Lamb to surrender his broadcasting license on the grounds that he associated with communists.
  • an electronic opera Raab by the Czech composer Jaroslav Krček was banned by the communist regime in 1972.
  • Phuntsok Wangyal, a progressive pro-communist Tibetan who founded the Tibetan Communist Party, once taught at Tromzikhang in Barkhor, Lhasa.
  • Romanian communist poet Alexandru Toma adapted several works of his Classicist predecessor Mihai Eminescu, removing their pessimistic tone and adding Socialist Realist rhetoric.
  • American communist Dennis E. Batt took part in the founding of the Red International of Labour Unions in Moscow in 1921.
  • United States Executive Order 9835 established a Federal Employee Loyalty Program, under which 27,000 federal employees were investigated by the FBI between 1948 and 1958 for alleged communist affiliations.
  • Paris-based Naye Prese was the sole Yiddish-language communist daily newspaper in Europe during the interbellum period.
  • Nepalese politician Radha Krishna Mainali, once a communist revolutionary and a political prisoner for 16 years, was appointed Minister of Education & Sports by King Gyanendra after the king's seizure of power in February 2005.
  • Hong Kong director Ann Hui's 1982 award-winning film Boat People depicting life in communist Vietnam was banned in Taiwan because it was filmed in communist China.
  • Indian communist politician and six-time Tripura Legislative Assembly member Bidya Debbarma never lost any election he contested.
  • Nepalese communist politician Narayan Man Bijukchhe has won a parliamentary seat in every national election since the 1990 Jana Andolan.
  • Amar Ouzegane, first secretary of the Algerian Communist Party until 1947, later renounced communism, arguing for a fusion of Islam and socialism.
  • C. C. Too, a leading exponent of psychological warfare in Malaysia, crafted a campaign to turn public opinion against the communists during the Malayan Emergency.
  • Willi Münzenberg (1889–1940) was known as "The Red Millionaire" because he combined high living with communist propaganda.
  • French politician Jean Fontenoy, initially a communist, later became a fascist.
  • a strike in the Hipolit Cegielski Industries in Poznań, June 1956, led to the first major Polish protest against communism.
  • Vesla Vetlesen became a government minister for Norway's Labour Party in 1986, thirty years after renouncing communism and joining the party together with her husband Leif Vetlesen.
  • Vern Partlow's satirical song "Old Man Atom" was a hit record in the U.S. in July 1950, but a month later it was removed from store shelves for allegedly containing pro-communist propaganda.
  • Josef Hora was one of the seven Czech Communist writers who denounced the new Stalinist leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Klement Gottwald in 1929.
  • Kisbarnaki Ferenc Farkas became the Chief Scout of the Hungarian Scouts-in-Exile when scouting was banned by the Communist government after World War II.
  • Moscow City Hall, built in the 1890s to the tastes of the Russian bourgeoisie, was converted by Communists into the Central Lenin Museum after its rich interior decoration had been plastered over.
  • Burmese communist leader H. N. Goshal was executed in an inner-party purge in 1967, after having been denounced as "Burma's Liu Shaoqi".
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