| STATISM | Feature of the Soviet Union |
| STALIN | He allegedly said, "Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union" |
| RUSSIANREVOLUTION | Conflict that heralded the end of the Tsars and the rise of the Soviet Union (7,10) |
| LEONID | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 (6,8) |
| BREZHNEV | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 (6,8) |
| LEONIDBREZHNEV | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 |
| POLITBURO | The former central policy-making and governing body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (9) |
| KOSYGIN | Alexei ___, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1964-80 (7) |
| JOSEPHSTALIN | Dictator who was the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (6,6) |
| MALENKOV | Georgy ?, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1953-55 |
| YELTSIN | First President of the Russian Federation, 1991-1999, after the collapse of the Soviet Union (7) |
| ANDROPOV | Former chairman of the KGB and head of the Soviet Union, Yuri - - - (8) |
| ARMENIA | Landlocked country in the Caucasus of western Asia that was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1991 (7) |
| PRAVDA | Official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (6) |
| BORIS | Russian author forced to decline the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (5) |
| PASTERNAK | Russian author forced to decline the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (9) |
| KHRUSHCHEV | Nikita ---, first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1953-64 (10) |
| REDARMY | Military of the Soviet Union until 1946, established by Leon Trotsky after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 (3,4) |
| GULAG | Which penal system of the Soviet Union consisted of a network of labour camps? (5) |
| KYRGYZSTAN | Attaining sovereignty after the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, what country has the capital Bishkek? (10) |
