| PERESTROIKA | Programme of economic and political restructuring enacted in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985 to 1991 (11) |
| NEWDEAL | Domestic programme of economic and social reform implemented by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to combat the effects of the Great Depression (3,4) |
| TROTSKY | Ukrainian-born Marxist, expelled from the Soviet Union by Stalin in 1929 and later assassinated (7) |
| ARENA | Bit of war enacted in the battle ground (5) |
| MARSHALL | The USA's programme of economic aid for Europe in the aftermath of World War II was known as the ___ |
| CHERNENKO | Konstantin ___, thirteen-month president of the USSR succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985 (9) |
| GLASNOST | Russian word meaning 'openness' promoted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s (8) |
| MARXISM | Name given to the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (7) |
| SOVIET | Any of the governing councils, local, intermediate and national elected by and representing the people in the Soviet Union |
| BLACKPOWER | US social, economic, and political movement of black people, 1960s and 1970s (5,5) |
| DIRIGISTE | Control by the state of economic and social matters (9) |
| THEDYINGSWAN | Ballet choreographed by Mikhail Fokine and first performed by the ballerina Anna Pavlova in 1907 (3,5,4) |
| BREZHNEV | Soviet leader whose 18-year tenure encompassed an era of economic and social stagnation (8) |
| SOCIALDARWINIST | Adherent of natural selection within economic and political settings (6,9) |
| USSR | Former country once led by Mikhail Gorbachev: Abbr. |
| ARTEL | A group of people, especially in the Soviet Union, working collectively and sharing the income and liability |
| GULAG | One of the political prisons and forced labour camps which existed in the Soviet Union (5) |
| ELECTORALLY | Head of Engineering and Reader form union by means of a vote |
| RAISA | Forename of the wife of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (5) |
| GARYPOWERS | Pilot of the US U-2 spy plane shot down in the Soviet Union in 1960 (4,6) |
