Question: Stalin's Message

I'm not sure that the last sentence is the best answer. It reads...

"While he [Stalin] is viewed by some as a traditionalist for reversing his predecessor's liberal social policies, he is viewed by others as a progressive for taking the unapologetically aggressive approach to the creation of a socialist state that Lenin was unwilling to take."

So, this sentence is largely about whether Stalin was a traditionalist or a progressive. It also talks about how Stalin took an aggressive approach and Lenin did NOT take aggressive approach.

Hiding within these two messages is the IMPLIED message that Stalin and Lenin both wanted to create a socialistic state. However, the last sentence is more about the differences between Stalin and Lenin than it is about shared goals.

Now compare that sentence with the highlighted sentence in the 2nd paragraph, which says

"With the OBJECTIVE of breeding gratitude and LOYALTY to the Soviet government, Lenin did X, Y and Z"

Later (in the 4th paragraph), it says that Stalin "...encouraged women to have more babies with the promise of mutual DEVOTION: the state would be responsible for their welfare, and the Soviet children would be expected to PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE to the state."

Since both sentences talk about the shared desire for the Soviet people to be LOYAL to the state, the best answer is the highlighted sentence in the 2nd paragraph.

Does that help?

It's actually a structure question, since we're asked for a summary of the author's method of reasoning.

Lenin's goal was to completely dismantle the tsarist CULTURE, and the author provides many examples of what this means. Some examples include a greater appreciation of literacy, aesthetics, industry, secularism, and gender equality. Lennon also empowered women to divorce their husbands, have abortions, and vote.

Since the passage does NOT mention demolishing artifacts of tsarist Russia, we can't select answer choice B.

Question link: https://gre.myprepclub.com/blog/2022/09/gre-question-of-the-day-septembe...

The passage tells us that, during some periods, the bottom layer of the world’s oceans comes from cold, dense water sinking in the far North Atlantic. This causes the warm surface waters of the Gulf Stream to be pulled northward. Bond realized that during such periods, the influx of these warm surface waters into northern regions could cause a large proportion of the icebergs that bear red grains to melt before traveling very far into the North Atlantic.

In other words, when it's really cold, the icebergs (bearing red grains) in the North Atlantic will melt faster, which means there will be more red grains on the bottom of the North Atlantic during that period of coldness.

So, the sediment cores from the North Atlantic’s deep waters of this time, should contain MORE red-stained grains. In other words, the amount of red stained grains should be closer to 17 percent than to 5 percent.

Does that help?

Given: 1200 singers performed some song.
The ORGANIZERS (not the singers) purchased only 12 copies of the music.
Given all of this, it SEEMS like very few people purchased copies of the music.

However, answer choice C tells us the singers were required to purchase their own copies of the music.
So, if all of the singers purchased their own copies of the music, the conclusion that almost no one bought copies of the music is weakened.