Fall 2004 End-of-Term Exam

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1.  Identifications

Identify, date where relevant, and explain the significance of four of the following.  (7 points each)

1. Rosa Luxemburg

2. The Labour Representation Committee

3.  "Class against Class"  

4. The British General Strike (1926)

5. The Welfare State  

6. Thatcherism

2.  Short Answers

Answer four out of five short answer questions. (18 points each)

1. Why, and in what sense, was the German Revolution of 1918-1919 an "incomplete revolution"?

2. How did Lenin adapt Marxism and what contribution did he make to the October Revolution of 1917?

3. Why did Comintern create such a decisive rupture within the forces of the Left in the interwar period and beyond?

4. Why did the British Labour Governments prove so ineffectual in introducing socialist reform in the interwar period?

5. Why did such severe divisions emerge among the Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War?  

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