Across
- 1. the “liberation” of Soviet Union
- 3. the leader of the reformers who launched an attack on Stalin and his crimes; began as an uneducated coal miner in 1918 and later earned a high-level position in the 1930s and became the new ruler in 1955
- 4. gave the Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to do so
- 5. ruler after Khrushchev who spoke of Stalin’s “good points” and ignored his crimes; launched a massive arms buildup
- 6. service industries such as government, education, trade, or health care
- 7. the top-secret project resulting in the first atomic bomb attack that ended WWII
- 9. a poet who wrote Doctor Zhivago, a powerful challenge to communism about a pre-Revolutionary intellectual who rejects the violence and brutality of the revolution of 1917 and the Stalinist years
- 10. a period during which Europeans filled their house with new, modern technologies
- 13. a very expensive new model for science inspired by the results o directed research in WWII; combined theoretical work with sophisticated engineering to attack difficult problems
- 14. pure theoretical science and practical technology
- 15. author of The Double Helix which tells how humanoid an Englishman discovered the structure of DNA in 1953
Down
- 2. celebrated nonconformist and author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a novel about the life of a man in a Stalinist concentration camp
- 8. the resistance leader and communist chief of Yugoslavia; successfully resisted Soviet domination
- 11. an educated communist voted into power by the Czechoslovak communist party; believed he could restore authentic socialism with personal freedom and party democracy
- 12. the rebirth of dictatorship in the USSR; a return of Stalin’s more restrictive policies under Brezhnev’s rule