| BOLSHEVIK | Member of the majority faction who seized power in Russia in 1917 (9) |
| OCTOBERREVOLUTION | Uprising in Russia in 1917 (7,10) |
| ROUGE | Followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia who seized power in 1975 (5,5) |
| KHMER | Followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia who seized power in 1975 (5,5) |
| KHMERROUGE | Followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia who seized power in 1975 |
| TSARIST | Mike, a top novelist from St Martin's, got into trouble writing about a person of great power in Russia (7) |
| TSARS | They had great power in Russia |
| PUNJABI | A member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India. |
| SINHALA | Member of the majority of population of Sri Lanka (7) |
| MAGYAR | Member of the majority ethnic group of Hungary, or their Finno-Ugric language (6) |
| MASSMEDIA | I object to help set up in support of the majority of newspapers and magazines for example (4,5) |
| ONLIBERTY | John Stuart Mill book that describes the tyranny of the majority |
| ASHKENAZY | Virtuoso pianist born in Russia in 1937 |
| UGANDA | African country in which General Idi Amin seized power in a military coup in 1971 (6) |
| JUNTA | For example, the military one that seized power in Argentina in 1976 (5) |
| DIOMEDES | Hero in Greek mythology who seized the sacred image of the goddess Pallas Athena (8) |
| STEPHEN | King of England 1135-54 who seized the throne on the death of Henry I (7) |
| OCTOBER | ___ Revolution, another name for the Bolshevik uprising in Russia in the autumn of 1917 (7) |
| EURO | Currency of the majority of members of the European Union (4) |
| SPEAKER | Leader of the majority party in US House of Representatives (7) |
