Across
- 6. Program to break up large estates for peasants.
- 10. Legalized racial segregation system in South Africa.
- 12. Main political party controlling 20th-century Mexico.
- 13. Leader of the Polish Solidarity movement.
- 16. A severe, temporary economic slowdown.
- 17. Loose federation of former Soviet territories (Abbrev.).
- 18. Ruling committee of the Soviet Communist Party.
- 19. South African president who ended segregation laws.
- 22. Location of crushed 1989 Chinese student protest.
- 23. ANC leader jailed 27 years; became president.
- 25. Polish labor union that challenged communist rule.
- 26. Temporary military rule during social unrest.
- 27. Modern capital built to open Brazil's interior.
- 28. Policy of violence to remove Muslims from Bosnia.
- 29. Soviet leader whose reforms ended the USSR.
Down
- 1. Target goals to update China's economy and defense.
- 2. Level of economic comfort and wealth in a nation.
- 3. Citizen who openly opposes government policies.
- 4. Physical barrier torn down in Germany in 1989.
- 5. Chinese leader who introduced market reforms.
- 7. Premier who opened Chinese relations with the West.
- 8. Yeltsin's rapid shift to free-market capitalism.
- 9. Russian president who faced a hard transition to capitalism.
- 11. Anti-apartheid organization led by Mandela (Abbrev.).
- 14. Island city returned to China by Britain in 1997.
- 15. Multi-ethnic Balkan nation that fractured violently.
- 20. The merging of East and West Germany in 1990.
- 21. Gorbachev's policy of economic restructuring.
- 24. Soviet policy targeting "openness" in society.