| TROTSKY | Ukrainian-born Marxist, expelled from the Soviet Union by Stalin in 1929 and later assassinated (7) |
| PERESTROIKA | Programme of economic and political restructuring enacted in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985 to 1991 (11) |
| GORKY | Author placed under house arrest by Stalin in 1934 |
| MIKHAIL | Mr. Baryshnikov (Headlines-making ballet dancer who defected from the Soviet Union while on tour with the Bolshoi in Toronto in 1974) |
| BOLSHOI | Mikhail Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union in 1974 while on tour in Toronto with what ballet company? |
| COCTEAU | Jean , French author of works including Les Enfants terribles (novel, 1929) and La Machine infernale (play, 1934) (7) |
| EGESTED | Discharged or expelled from the body in any way (7) |
| BREATHS | They're drawn in and expelled from the lungs |
| ACADIAN | One expelled from the Maritimes in the Great Upheaval |
| BAKUNIN | Mikhail ___, Russian anarchist and writer expelled from the First International after conflicts with Karl Marx |
| USTASHE | Croatian ultranationalist group that existed between 1929 and 1945 (7) |
| KREMLIN | Where was crackpot like Mr Stalin in the end? |
| EXCRETA | Waste matter expelled from the body (7) |
| OLGA | ___ Korbut, former gymnast from the Soviet Union nicknamed the Sparrow from Minsk (4) |
| UKRAINIANS | In 1991 these Eastern European people gained independence from the Soviet Union |
| YALTA | City in the Crimea on the Black Sea that was the scene of a conference between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin in 1945 (5) |
| GULAG | Division of the Soviet secret police created under Stalin in the 19305 to administer prisons and forced labour camps (5) |
| KIROV | Sergei ___, Soviet politician whose 1934 assassination was the start of the purge of the Communist Party by Stalin (5) |
| LITHUANIA | First nation to restore its independence from the Soviet Union |
| ALBERTCAMPION | Fictional upper-class detective created by English author Margery Allingham, appearing in 18 novels between 1929 and 1965 (6,7) |
