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How is Russian literature both timeless and affected by historical/political events?
what the impact of both the 19th century Bolshevik Revolution and Communist rule on the Russian writers and literature?
Please help.

Say for example on the scale of the French or Russian revolution.
Could it have resulted in a totalitarian dictatorship?

Study Guide 6
Absolutism and Enlightenment
I. Multiple Choice
1. The French state prior to 1788 had various ways to finance itself, from taxes to collecting money by selling
A. lands of the Catholic Church.
B. rights to name new colonies.
C. licenses to leave the country.
D. titles and offices to the nobility.
2. Voltaire imprisoned in the Bastille when he was young because he
A. stole food to feed his dying mother.
B. insulted an aristocrat who had him imprison without trial.
C. was arrested for writing atheistic diatribes against Catholicism.
D. was a sexual profligate who kept several mistresses.
3. Diderot published the Encyclopédie in secret because
A. he was concerned that other writers might try to copy his ideas.
B. it was published during the French Revolution’s dangerous Reign of Terror.
C. he had swindled his subscribers out of money and was afraid of being caught.
D. It had been banned the French monarchy and the Catholic Church.
4 Diderot’s Encyclopedie
A) included only the writings of the nobility and clergy.
B) expounded the merits of human freedom.
C) supported the French absolute monarchy.
D) was very unpopular.
E) none of the above
5. The basic principle of the Physiocrat economists of the eighteenth century was that
A. economies should be based on freedom and equality.
B. all natural resources must be regulated by the state.
C. governments should regulate labor but not trade.
D. economic freedom means charging any price one wants
6. According to Adam Smith, the market should be allowed to regulate itself through
A. religious piety.
B. supply and demand.
C. military might.
D. government involvement.
7. The economic theory espoused by Smith and the French physiocrats was a direct attack on the existing economic practice of
A) capitalism.
B) mercantilism.
C) communism.
D) socialism.
8. According to Adam Smith, the dynamic motivating force in all economic enterprise is
A) government initiative.
B) individual self-interest.
C) altruistic social concern.
D) class consciousness.
E) survival.
9. John Locke’s Treatise on Civil Government
A) refuted the theory of divine right.
B) condemned absolute monarchy.
C) espoused the right of revolution.
D) justified the Glorious Revolution.
E) all of the above.
10. _____________ was NOT a key word or phrase in the Enlightenment vocabulary.
A) intuition
B) progress
C) reason
D) natural law
E) education
11. The 18th-century French philosophes could be LEAST characterized as
A) social reformers
B) secular humanitarians
C) traditional philosophers
D) general popularizers
E) rational thinkers
12. The most popular religious belief of Enlightenment thinkers was
A) atheism.
B) agnosticism.
C) Lutheranism.
D) Calvinism
E) none of the above.
13. Deists
A) denied miracles.
B) advocated no clergy.
C) believed in an impersonal God who, after creation, was no longer involved with
humanity.
D) believed that natural laws govern the universe.
E) all of the above.
14. Montesquieu advocated a governmental system of
A) united nations.
B) checks and balances.
C) royal courts.
D) judicial appeal.
E) petitioning.
15. The government of choice for the philosophes was
A) democracy.
B) theocracy.
C) constitutional monarchy.
D) absolute monarchy.
E) no organized government.
16. “Man is born free, but today is everywhere in chains,” is the opening line from The Social Contract, written by
A) Voltaire.
B) Locke.
C) Diderot.
D) Rousseau.
E) d’Holbach.
17. Two different concepts of a “social contract” theory were put forth by
A) Rousseau and Locke.
B) Montesquieu and Rousseau.
C) Voltaire and Rousseau.
D) Voltaire and Montesquieu.
E) Barrack Obama and Mitt Romney.
18. Frederick the Great instituted all of the following “enlightened” reforms in Prussia EXCEPT the
A) reorganization of the civil service.
B) abolition of serfdom.
C) abolition of torture.
D) recognition of civil equality for Roman Catholics.
E) importation of new crops.
19. The so-called “enlightened despots,” or “enlightened monarchs,” included
A) Catherine the Great of Russia
B) Frederick the Great of Prussia
C) Joseph II of Austria
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
20. Catherine the Great of Russia
A) secularized church lands.
B) enhanced royal authority.
C) permitted publication of controversial works.
D) subsidized artists and writers.
E) all of the above.

I’m pretty sure it was elementary school, at least. The book took place in Romania, and I’m pretty sure it was the 80s. The book ends with the spurs of Revolution, I think. The narrator is a girl and she had gotten a red scarf as a present, I think. The scarf was very important in the book, and at the end she gives it away to a boy (or young man, whatever) who has a head injury, to help stop the bleeding. I think her family stood in bread lines, and at one point she is eating M & Ms that she had gotten from a friend, who was a boy, whose father worked for…secret police or something, which is why who could get that. Her mother was concerned when she saw her eating them because she said they could only get chocolate off the Black Market. I believe there was an epilogue talking about how, although improved, Romania was still facing some problems.
Also there’s another book, but I don’t think anyone can find it because I only remember the cover, some characteristics, but not the plot at all. The cover was a girl in a navy uniform sitting down at a chessboard on an island. You could only see her upper torso to her head, and her back was to the cover. The protagonist was a adventurous tomboy I think…? They went to an island…there were rocks…somebody might have gotten murdered…I think someone fell out of a window…I have no idea what happened, but I’m pretty sure it had a word along the lines of “game” or something similar in the title.
If anyone has happened to read these, I’d love to know the titles, thanks!

I have a kitten who received Revolution but who just may have other intestinal parasites not covered by Revolution, so I took her to a new vet two days ago. I’ve taken fecal samples for other cats in the past, and they’ve always just checked the poop under a microscope in the vet’s office. This is a nationally-affiliated vet hospital, but they told me they would send it out and call me yesterday with the results. Well, they didn’t call, and when I called them at the end of the day, they said they hadn’t gotten any results in. So this was the second weirdness, as I’ve never had fecals done out of office and definitely have never had results on a simple test be unavailable the next day. I did pay for it, and the vet was very gentle and helpful with this kitten. But don’t you think this is unusual?

Several examples come to mind. Three of the highest profile “muslim” extremists/terrorists presented to Americans on television are actually Jews:
“Adam Gadahn” is allegedly al Qaeda’s American spokesman. His real name is Adam Pearlman and his grandfather was on the board of prominent Jewish group “Anti-defamation League.”
“Abu Talhah al-Amrikee” is an apparent associate of the extremist “Muslim” website, “Revolution Muslim,” which threatened the creators of the program “South Park” in a very public and high profile manner. His real name is Zachary Adam Chesser. He is an Orthodox Jew who spent time in Jewish racial colonies in the Gaza Strip.
“Yousef Al-Khattab” is the alleged founder of the above reference “Revolution Muslim” website. His real name is Joseph Cohen, and he is an Orthodox Jew who spent most of his youth being educated in Orthodox Yeshivas.
So why are three of the highest profile “Islamic terrorists” actually Jews? Are they self-hating Jews? What are the odds that Al Qaeda and its affiliate groups would select three self-hating Jews out of all of the other authentic Muslim “extremists” purported to exist, as their primary public relations representatives in the United States? Was this done by al Qaeda on purpose?
This makes no sense to me! Help!